English Dictionary

wishfulness

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

The state or quality of being wishful. / Wishful thinking.

日本語の意味

願望に満ちた状態 / 希望的観測 / 願望、望み

Her wishfulness made it difficult to accept the harsh realities of life.

彼女の願いがちな心のあり方は、人生の厳しい現実を受け入れにくくしていた。

意味（1）

The state or quality of being wishful.

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.

意味（2）

Wishful thinking.

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.

wishfulnesses （ plural ）