wish fulfilment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A notebook is a place of wish fulfilment, and a place for vengeance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
It's wish fulfilment but of the simplest kind: longing for connection, a sort of Nancy Meyers for friends.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
You might suggest that it was wish fulfilment, that I was projecting my own words onto her, and that's the most likely explanation.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2021
Hollywood, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s soapy, gleefully ahistorical Netflix miniseries about postwar Hollywood, is not so much a work of historical fiction as it is an exercise in wish fulfilment.
From Slate ● May 1, 2020
Sleep walking as a method of wish fulfilment evidently lies close to the dream life, which has become known through psychoanalysis.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.
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