wish fulfillment

wish fulfillment
Synonyms and related words:
alienation, ardor, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, compensation, concupiscence, curiosity, decompensation, defense mechanism, dereism, dereistic thinking, desideration, desire, displacement, dissociation, dreamery, drive, eagerness, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fancy, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, flight of fancy, hope, horme, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, imaginative exercise, impracticality, intellectual curiosity, isolation, libido, lust for learning, mind, need, negativism, overcompensation, passion, play of fancy, pleasure, pleasure principle, projection, psychotaxis, quixotism, quixotry, rationalization, resistance, romance, romanticism, sexual desire, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, thirst for knowledge, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, urge, utopianism, visionariness, want, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

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  • wish fulfillment — n. 1. the realization of a desire or wish 2. Psychoanalysis the symbolic attainment, in the form of dreams, fantasies, etc., of an often unconscious wish or impulse …   English World dictionary

  • wish fulfillment — noun : the gratification of a desire especially as gained symbolically (as in dreams, daydreams, symptomatic acts, or neurotic symptoms) * * * 1. gratification of desires. 2. Psychoanal. the drive to free oneself from tension caused by… …   Useful english dictionary

  • wish fulfillment — wish ful·fill·ment mənt n the gratification of a desire esp. symbolically (as in dreams or fantasies) …   Medical dictionary

  • wish fulfillment — wish′ fulfill ment n. psl prs the drive to free oneself from tension caused by a suppressed desire, esp. by symbolizing the desire in dreams, slips of the tongue, etc • Etymology: 1905–10 …   From formal English to slang

  • wish fulfillment — noun Date: 1908 the gratification of a desire especially symbolically (as in dreams, daydreams, or neurotic symptoms) …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • wish fulfillment — 1. gratification of desires. 2. Psychoanal. the drive to free oneself from tension caused by instinctual needs, as sex. [1905 10] * * * …   Universalium

  • wish — (v.) O.E. wyscan to wish, from P.Gmc. *wunskijanan (Cf. O.N. æskja, Dan. ènske, Swed. önska, M.Du. wonscen, Du. wensen, O.H.G. wunsken, Ger. wunschen to wish ), from PIE *wun /*wen /*won to strive after, wish, desire, be satisfied (Cf …   Etymology dictionary

  • wish-fulfilling — wish ful·fill·ing wish fu̇(l) .fil iŋ adj relating to or serving the function of wish fulfillment <a wish fulfilling fantasy> …   Medical dictionary

  • wish|ing cap — «WIHSH ihng», a fabulous cap supposed to ensure fulfillment of any wish made by one wearing it …   Useful english dictionary

  • wish — wisher, n. wishless, adj. /wish/, v.t. 1. to want; desire; long for (usually fol. by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning. 2. to desire (a person or thing) to be (as specified): to wish the problem settled. 3 …   Universalium

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