Emotions
Synonyms for wishing
The synonym for wishing recorded in this bank is want, in the sense "a specific feeling of desire". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for wishing
- wantnoun, in the sense "a specific feeling of desire"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day wishing is audited in a second meaning.
a specific feeling of desire
He was above all wishing and desire.
The true synonym
want
Same sentence, swapped: He was above all want and desire.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- temptation
- impulse
- ambition
Where wishing turns up in the game
wishing is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where wishing is the trap
Play wishing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wishing reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because emotions is the company wishing keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
wishing is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.