whimnoun [ C ]
uk/wɪm/us/wɪm/C2 a sudden wish or idea, especially one that cannot be reasonably explained:
We booked the trip on a whim.
You can add what you want to this mixture - brandy, whisky, or nothing at all - as the whim takes you.
Oh for a husband who would indulge my every whim!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feelings of desire
- appetite
- caprice
- compulsion
- covetous
- craving
- dream
- drive
- get itchy feet idiom
- hankering
- hunger
- impulse buy
- inclination
- longing
- lust
- thirst
- urge
- vaulting
- wish
- yearning
- yen
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