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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An extravagant or erratic notion or action.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To gad; range.
  2. n. A wandering or strolling.
  3. n. A wandering of the thoughts; a wild freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An erratic notion or action.
  2. n. An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A wandering or strolling.
  2. n. Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vagus ("wandering"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin vagārī, to wander, from vagus, wandering. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • biocon Vagary (verb) means "to wander or roam" (Oxford English Dictionary). Jul 11, 2011

  • Alexis Perez Strange happening:Economists don't understand all the vagaries of the stock market. (newbury house dic.) Oct 30, 2010

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