Words and phrases that have a meaning related to wishfulness: (123 results)
Often used in the same context:
archaism, attitudinizing, syllogisms, charlatanry, incommensurability, everydayness, perspicuity, wordsworthian, nebulousness, ambiguousness, clownishness, incuriosity, quiddity, doubleness, ecumenicalism, blatancy, embattlement, commonplaces, bolshevism, auteurism, blitheness, delphic, roguery, insubstantiality, sophist, buncombe, supernaturalism, dogmatist, abstract noun, irreconcilability, wrongheadedness, good naturedness, concreteness, tendentiousness, casuistry, simpleness, boundlessness, reification, indirectness, reactionism, historicism, instrumentalism, endlessness, jacobinism, absoluteness, sensibleness, punctiliousness, pompousness, diabolism, negritude, knavery, benthamite, idee fixe, judeophobia, amour propre, ineloquent, gratuitousness, disingenuity, doublethink, deracination, passivism, monarchism, bon ton, vainglory, sophistries, unworldliness, pollyanna, vacuousness, contemporaneity, inarticulateness, sunniness, speciousness, wholeheartedness, wilfulness, dubiousness, monism, inconstancy, dilettantism, existentialist philosophy, agreeability, ungrammatically, journalese, ghastliness, cosmopolite, metafiction, solitariness, vulgarization, illusionism, blamelessness, hallowing, poesy, tu quoque, pietism, metaphysicians, evanescence, barbarisms, haphazardness, unmodern, indeterminacy, grubbiness, teleology, immanence, daydreaming, dreaming, idealism, longing, tripe, adoration, adulation, agrarianism, appeal, courting, crap, emotionalism, escapism, exaltation, falsification, fantasizing, fantasy, fiction, fictions, figuration
More general:
Also try:yearning
— Adjectives for wishfulness: mere, own, such, romantic, utopian, human, avid, double, sentimental, much
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