Associations to the word «Desideratum»

Wiktionary

DESIDERATUM, noun. Something that is wished for, or considered desirable.

Dictionary definition

DESIDERATUM, noun. Something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne