Wishfulness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wishfulness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being wishful.
Meaning
The state or quality of being wishful.
More Meanings
- Wishful thinking.
Example Sentences
For the long lost glories, that never in fact existed save in the wishfulness of their brains, were being remembered with a reality as vivid, if not more so, as truth itself.
[…] Gov. Eliot Spitzer has made New York the latest state to travel down a murky legal road, to a place where laws are made not in response to facts, but to wishfulness and fear.
[The film American Madness] simply hit too close to home for audiences in 1932: the wishfulness of its happy ending could not compensate for the familiarity of its painful subject.
She asked her little question with something of the softness of her old manner, with something of the longing loving wishfulness which used to make so many of her questions sweet to her mother’s ears.
Word Forms
- wishfulnesses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unwishfulness, wistfulness, wishy-washiness, dreamfulness, whimsicality, wantedness.
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