Synonyms:
fulfillment, fulfilment
Meaning: a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires
Synonyms:
fulfillment, fulfilment
Meaning: the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc)
Usage examples
Alive, aware of its possible fulfillment, he could not condemn himself to the sacrifice.
It is true that common usage recognizes "bad" dreams, but still the dream plainly connotates to it only the beautiful wish fulfillment.
In colloquial usage, therefore, there is a presentment of the fact that the fulfillment of a wish is a main characteristic of the dream.
For the interfering tendency we substitute the psychic stimulus, the wish which strives for its fulfillment, let us say, for thus far we are not familiar with any other sleep-disturbing psychic stimulus.
One main characteristic of the dream is that a wish is its source, and that the content of the dream is the gratification of this wish. Another equally constant feature is that the dream does not merely express a thought, but also represents the fulfillment of this wish in the form of a hallucinatory experience.
As, for example, in dreams of impatience, whenever a person has made preparations for a journey, for a theatrical performance, for a lecture or for a visit, and now dreams of the anticipated fulfillment of his expectations, and so arrives at his goal the night before the actual experience, in the theatre or in conversation with his host.