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wish-fulfilment (iou)



wish-fulfilment noun. Also *wish-fulfillment. E20.
[translating German Wunscherfullung.]
Psychoanalysis. (A tendency towards) the fulfilment of acknowledged or unconscious wishes in dreams and fantasies; a dream or other event or object in which the fulfilment of a wish is given (usu. imaginary or symbolic) expression.
wish-fulfilling adjective that tends towards or expresses wish-fulfilment E20.