0 (the quality of often having) a sudden and usually silly wish to have or do something, or a sudden and silly change of mind or behaviour: --
Bentham seems to infer utilitarianism from the unattractiveness of 'asceticism' or 'caprice'.
Stoicism could be seen as creating a sense of self aloof from the caprices of fortune, which enabled the individual to cope and remain constant despite reversals.
Not only did this focus of capitalism overburden the household with gadgets, but also the fixation on demand created a world of caprice and illusion.
When guidelines standardize practice based on implicit bedside rationing conventions, they magnify and multiply the ethical caprice of bedside rationing.
Mediatization of the political debate implies either politicians' increased responsiveness to media caprices or politicians' loss of monopoly over news coverage.
This case study is not about passive minorities subjected to the whims and caprices of the majority.
It is not, that is to say, subject to human caprice.
He reasons that, as architects are not artists, they must be concerned with producing drawings which communicate building not caprice.
