1. A sudden, unpredictable change.
2. A tendency to change one’s mind without apparent or adequate motive.
3. Music. Capriccio.
Origin
Caprice is from the Italian word ‘capriccio’ which means a sudden start or motion.
Quotes
Does she turn, thought he, thus, from one to the other, with no preference but of accident or caprice? Is her favour thus light of circulation?
— Fanny Burney, Camilla, or a Picture of Youth
