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What does wishfulness mean?

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Noun
  1. The state or quality of being wishful.
  2. Wishful thinking.
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There's a sort of wistful wishfulness even to the union leaders arguing in favour of it.
I suspect that the tag is ascribable to wishfulness on the part of the many journalists who live there.
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.
At the restaurant there was a sort of romantic wishfulness that Spain's cooking should be more Moorish than it actually is.
But such wishfulness seems to pay off at the box office and in the ratings.
There is, perhaps, an air of wishfulness to that endeavor.

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