DESIDERATUM

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: desiderata   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something desired as a necessity

Example:

the desiderata for a vacation are time and money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("desideratum" is a kind of...):

essential; necessary; necessity; requirement; requisite (anything indispensable)

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