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

Synonyms:

imagination, belief, liking, boutade, bee, study at caprice, desire, fad, freak, conception, conceit, inclination, notion, image, thoughts, predilection, megrim, impulse, humor, idea, mood, supposition

fitfulness, fancy, vacillation, randomness, indecisiveness, caprice, flightiness, arbitrariness, fickleness, fleetingness, whim, impulsiveness, fluctuation, changeability, whimsy, sporadicalness, volatility, fancifulness

Usage examples:

• But he did not believe, and he could hardly denounce his friend on a vagary.
• By these degrees the illusion grew until my pretense became a vagary and obsession and to me ceased to be a pretense. - "The Portal of Dreams", Charles Neville Buck.
• It was a vagary of Mr. Shrimplin's that ten reckless years of his life had been spent in the West, the far West, the West of cow- towns and bad men; that for this decade he had flourished on bucking broncos and in gilded bars, the admired hero of a variety of deft homicides. - "The Just and the Unjust", Vaughan Kester.