wish fulfillment
noun
: the gratification of a desire especially symbolically (as in dreams, daydreams, or neurotic symptoms)
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But wish fulfillment was always just a means to get audiences in the theater and send them home happy.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
This is also a film floating along on teen-movie archetypes and wish fulfillment.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
This [movie] really is wish fulfillment for all of us women.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
At first glance, however, Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with its whimsical magic and fantastical elements, is an unlikely fit for Soviet children’s literature, which favored themes of hard work and collective struggle over wish fulfillment and enchantment.
—Christin Bohnke, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
This is also a film floating along on teen-movie archetypes and wish fulfillment.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
This [movie] really is wish fulfillment for all of us women.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
At first glance, however, Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with its whimsical magic and fantastical elements, is an unlikely fit for Soviet children’s literature, which favored themes of hard work and collective struggle over wish fulfillment and enchantment.
—Christin Bohnke, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wish fulfillment
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“Wish fulfillment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wish%20fulfillment. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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