wish fulfillment
noun
: the gratification of a desire especially symbolically (as in dreams, daydreams, or neurotic symptoms)
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Show business sells dreams, and theme parks — at their best — offer fans unique opportunities for wish fulfillment.
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Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2025
But amid this movie’s overall blandness, the inauthenticity of its wish fulfillment sequences is thrown into sharper relief.
—Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025
Her wish fulfillment storyline is making it as an artist.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Your husband’s prognostication about weddings and children aren’t wish fulfillment so much as a reflection of his hope that your daughter is happy in life.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2025
But amid this movie’s overall blandness, the inauthenticity of its wish fulfillment sequences is thrown into sharper relief.
—Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025
Her wish fulfillment storyline is making it as an artist.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Your husband’s prognostication about weddings and children aren’t wish fulfillment so much as a reflection of his hope that your daughter is happy in life.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 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 23 Feb. 2025.
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