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wishfulfilling

wishfulfilling is the alternative form of wish-fulfilling.

Meaning of wish-fulfilling

Adjective

wish-fulfilling (comparative more wish-fulfilling, superlative most wish-fulfilling)

  1. Able to grant wishes.
    • That precious wish-fulfilling jewel, although it has no thought, if it is placed on top of a victory banner, will rain down jewels, food, and clothing.2004, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma - Volume 1, page 317
  2. Satisfying a wish.
    • And their dreams were the ones that prompted Freud in 1933 to acknowledge an exception to his 1900 thesis that manifest dream contents universally feature wish-fulfilling scenarios in more or less disguised forms.1998, Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristeidēs Baltas, Stavroula Tsinorema, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science, page 273

Forms of wishfulfilling

comparativemore wishfulfilling
superlativemost wishfulfilling

Questions about wishfulfilling

What is wishfulfilling the alternative form of?
Wishfulfilling is the alternative form of wish-fulfilling.

Words near wishfulfilling in the dictionary

  1. wishful thinkers
  2. wishful thinking
  3. wishful thinkings
  4. wishful thought
  5. wishful thoughts
  6. wishfulfilling
  7. wishfully
  8. wishfulness
  9. wishfulnesses
  10. wishi
  11. wishin'

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