vagary
noun/vəˈɡɛɚ.i/
Etymology
From Italian vagare (“wander”) and/or its source Latin vagārī (“to wander”), from Latin vagus (“wandering”). Later apparently reinterpreted in English as vague + -ery but without changing the spelling. By surface analysis, Latin vag(us) + -ary.
- derived from vagus
Definitions
An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
- This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.
- These systems learn the vagaries of language by analyzing enormous amounts of text, including thousands of books, Wikipedia entries and other online documents.
Something vague.
- to speak in vagaries
An impulsive or illogical desire
An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for vagary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA