wishfulness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or quality of being wishful. uncountable,usually
    — She asked her little question with something of the softness of her old manner, with something of the longing loving wishfulness which used to make so many of her questions sweet to her mother’s ears.
  2. Wishful thinking. uncountable,usually
    — For the long lost glories, that never in fact existed save in the wishfulness of their brains, were being remembered with a reality as vivid, if not more so, as truth itself.

词形变化

wishfulnesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English wishful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English wishfulness
From wishful + -ness.
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