desideration

English

Etymology

Latin desideratio.

Noun

desideration (countable and uncountable, plural desiderations)

1. The act of desiderating.
2. Something desired.
   • 1836, Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia:

     Coriander-seed might correct it […] The very desideration!

References

• “desideration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.