/keuh prees"/ , n.
1. a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather.
2. a tendency to change one's mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness: With the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty.
3. Music. capriccio (def. 1).
[ 1660-70; ]
Syn. 1. vagary, notion, whim, fancy.