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wish fulfilment

noun

Etymology

From wish + fulfilment, a calque of German Wunscherfüllung.

  1. derived from Wunscherfüllung

Definitions

  1. The imagined satisfying of a wish or desire, especially one which was unconscious or not…

    The imagined satisfying of a wish or desire, especially one which was unconscious or not recognised by the holder; the expression of such fulfilment in a dream, fantasy etc.

    • The dream represents a certain state of affairs as being as I would wish it to be: its content is thus a wish-fulfilment, its motive a wish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wish fulfilment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA