| Desideratum (n.) Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. Thesaurus Entries aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, bare necessities, call for, catch, counsel, dearest wish, demand, demand for, desideration, design, desire, determination, effect, essential, essentials, fixed purpose, forbidden fruit, function, glimmering goal, golden vision, hope, idea, indispensable, intendment, intent, intention, lodestone, magnet, meaning, mind, motive, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, need for, nisus, occasion, plan, plum, point, prerequirement, prerequisite, prize, project, proposal, prospectus, purpose, requirement, requisite, requisition, resolution, resolve, sake, striving, study, temptation, the necessary, the needful, trophy, view, want, will, wish |