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
We see here plainly that the kernel of the supposed dream belonging to the night wandering is wish fulfilment, desire for glory 101and the hand of the beloved.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by J. Sadger
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