{
  "id": "wish.emotional",
  "term": "wish",
  "sense": "emotional",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "wish",
  "domain": "noun",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a want for a possible state that differs from now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "want.desire",
      "state.condition",
      "possible.potential",
      "difference.relation",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the want and a possible state that differs from now together make this",
    "novel_properties": [
      "subjective desire",
      "future‑oriented difference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2012, the Mars rover Curiosity transmitted a wish to drill a specific rock, 'John Klein', based on mineral data suggesting past water.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Every December, Finland's 'Wish Tree' tradition sees thousands of handwritten wishes nailed to a spruce in Turku.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2008 crash, U.S. Treasury officials wished for a stable housing market, tracking it daily in economic briefings.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "wish",
    "wished",
    "wishes",
    "wishing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wish.emotional"
}