The Only Use of "whim" in "The Great Gatsby"

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The Only Use

whim
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The Great Gatsby
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As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities — he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.†
p. 149.6

whim = a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation

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(1) (whim)
a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)