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desire
  1. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
  2. (uncountable) Motivation.
  3. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The pageant contestant responded that her greatest desire was for world peace, much to the delight of the crowd and judges.”
      “Becoming an accountant had always been his desire since he was a young boy.”
      “He had a burning desire for Stacy and would spend his nights dreaming of her.”
desideration
  1. The act of desiderating.
  2. Something desired.
desiderative
  1. (linguistics) A verbal mood that has the meaning of “wanting to do something”, found in languages such as Ancient Greek and Sanskrit; the optative.
desirosity
  1. (rare) The quality of being desirous; desirousness.
desideratum
  1. Something that is wished for, or considered desirable.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “An appearance of antiquity is never a desideratum to the honest book-collector.”
      “For small companies, where centralized management is not a desideratum, this solution may be feasible.”
      “Although taxonomic stability may be a desideratum, in reality taxonomic stability is a manifestation of scientific stagnation.”
desirefulness
  1. The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess.
desier
  1. Eye dialect spelling of desire.
desirement
  1. (nonstandard) Something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
desireableness
  1. nonstandard form of desirableness.
desirer
  1. One who desires, asks, or wishes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The law operates to bring together the desirer and the object that aroused the desire.”
      “The flesh or sensitive part is the first desirer, though it be sin no further than it is voluntary.”
      “He is often a desirer of learning, which once arrived at, proves his strongest armour.”
desiring
  1. A yearning for; a want.
desirable
  1. A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
desirableness
  1. The quality of being desirable.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This information will have a significant influence to me on the desirableness of an apartment.”
      “The need for low water content just takes a lot of the desirableness away from them from my standpoint.”
      “For a number of reasons these naturally produced pesticides have not found widespread commercial exploitation, despite their ecological desirableness.”
desirability
  1. The state of being desirable.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Max lifted his head and gazed down into her bright blue eyes, subconsciously taking a fix on the way she looked, imprinting her allure and desirability into his memory.”
      “An advertisement that tells a prospect what a hotel room costs rivets the hotel's name and desirability in their mind in more ways than one.”
      “There exist no standard means to quantify the desirability of candidate components.”
desirousness
desirelessness
  1. Absence of desire.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After years of practicing meditation, I achieved a state of desirelessness where I found peace in the absence of earthly cravings.”
desirablenesses
desiderations
  1. plural of desideration
desideratives
  1. plural of desiderative
  2. Examples:
    1. “One set of constructions-motion auxiliaries, desideratives, and reflexive causatives-involve linking to the internal a-subject.”
      “And the data also shows that the learner misunderstands how to make the Japanese desideratives polite.”
      “Like causatives and desideratives, denominatives follow the inflection of thematic verbs of the Present System.”
desirabilities
desiderata
  1. plural of desideratum
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Those bedrooms, while not obvious desiderata for a family of three, should bring the asking price up to half a million dollars.”
      “While these are the essential requirements, certain additional desiderata should perhaps be recorded.”
      “Variety and abundance were desiderata and restrained components of animals, buildings, landscape, etc. should therefore be included.”
desirements
  1. plural of desirement
desirables
  1. plural of desirable
  2. Examples:
    1. “From being an overlooked, conservative fail-safe, it's shot up near the top of the list of summer desirables.”
      “The highly desirables will be ferried around in cars and put up in the fancier type of chain hotel.”
      “Mirrors and bathroom scales aren't high on my list of desirables but sometimes you do need to check things out.”
desirings
  1. plural of desiring
desirers
  1. plural of desirer
desires
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