Meaning of Wishfulness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or quality of being wishful.
   uncountable, usually
2. Wishful thinking.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[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.”

“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.”

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