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What is the noun for wishes?

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wish
  1. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen
  2. an expression of such a desire etc.
  3. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power(s)
  4. the thing desired or longed for
  5. (Sussex) a water meadow.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The pageant contestant was met with a standing ovation when she expressed her wish for world peace.”
      “It was his wish that we destroy the evidence.”
wishfulness
  1. The state or quality of being wishful.
  2. Wishful thinking.
  3. Examples:
    1. “At the restaurant there was a sort of romantic wishfulness that Spain's cooking should be more Moorish than it actually is.”
      “I suspect that the tag is ascribable to wishfulness on the part of the many journalists who live there.”
      “There's a sort of wistful wishfulness even to the union leaders arguing in favour of it.”
wishe
  1. Obsolete spelling of wish
wisher
  1. Someone who makes a wish
  2. Examples:
    1. “This revelation worries me for our future, because it brings his whole character and judgement into focus as a dreamer as well as a wisher?”
      “Just because I don't share the same theology as the wisher doesn't mean I have to get all snippy.”
      “Her wisher was so undeveloped that she could only wish for things available to people of moderate affluence.”
wishing
wishfulnesses
  1. plural of wishfulness
wishings
wishers
  1. plural of wisher
  2. Examples:
    1. “Shruti's performance received a standing ovation from critics, artists and well wishers.”
      “Certainly, the wishers and dreamers have crisscrossed these lands several times, hunting for wealth in crops, cattle, and minerals.”
      “Microsoft lists ten wishes that have already been granted here, and as Mark points out, the successful wishers are not identified.”
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