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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
John Jay Chapman

Meaning of "desideratum" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DESIDERATUM

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESIDERATUM

desideratum  [dɪˌzɪdəˈrɑːtəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESIDERATUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Desideratum is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESIDERATUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Desideratum

Desideratum is the second album of ambient band Synæsthesia which was released in 1995.

Definition of desideratum in the English dictionary

The definition of desideratum in the dictionary is something lacked and wanted.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESIDERATUM


acetum
əˈsiːtəm
Antietam
ænˈtiːtəm
arboretum
ˌɑːbəˈriːtəm
autumn
ˈɔːtəm
combretum
kɒmˈbriːtəm
Decretum
dɪˈkriːtəm
equisetum
ˌɛkwɪˈsiːtəm
erratum
ɪˈrɑːtəm
intrapartum
ˌɪntrəˈpɑːtəm
pinetum
paɪˈniːtəm
postmortem
pəʊstˈmɔːtəm
postpartum
pəʊstˈpɑːtəm
satem
ˈsɑːtəm
scutum
ˈskjuːtəm
sputum
ˈspjuːtəm
stratum
ˈstrɑːtəm
substratum
sʌbˈstrɑːtəm
superstratum
ˌsuːpəˈstrɑːtəm
tapetum
təˈpiːtəm
understratum
ˈʌndəˌstrɑːtəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESIDERATUM

desiccant
desiccate
desiccated
desiccation
desiccative
desiccator
desiderata
desiderate
desideration
desiderative
desiderium
design
designable
designate
designated
designated area
designated driver
designated employment
designation
designative

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESIDERATUM

ageratum
Batum
corpus striatum
datum
ideatum
Mahabharatum
Newlyn datum
ordnance datum
petrolatum
polygonatum
pomatum
postulatum
relatum
sense datum
separatum
striatum
surrogatum
Tatum
testatum
ultimatum

Synonyms and antonyms of desideratum in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DESIDERATUM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «desideratum» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of desideratum

Translation of «desideratum» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESIDERATUM

Find out the translation of desideratum to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of desideratum from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «desideratum» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

迫切要求
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desideratum
570 millions of speakers

English

desideratum
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

desideratum
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

desideratum
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дезидерат
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desiderato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অভীষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

desideratum
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Desideratum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Desiderat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

欲しいもの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

desideratum
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Desideratum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vật ước muốn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

desideratum
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Desideratum
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

arzu edilen şey
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

desideratum
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dezyderat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дезидерат
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deziderat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζητούμενο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

desideratum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

önskemål
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ønskemål
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of desideratum

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESIDERATUM»

The term «desideratum» is normally little used and occupies the 123.988 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESIDERATUM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about desideratum

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2 QUOTES WITH «DESIDERATUM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word desideratum.
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John Jay Chapman
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
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Will Self
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESIDERATUM»

Discover the use of desideratum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to desideratum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Desideratum; Or, Ireland's Only Remedy, “Poor Laws and ...
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P. E. H., 1831
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Non-Bayesian Decision Theory: Beliefs and Desires as Reasons ...
Theorem 8.1 (The First Impossibility Theorem) 1. Let Definition 8.1 hold and let 0 ≤ ph < 1 in Desideratum 1. Then, there is no decision rule f that satisfies Desiderata 1 & 2 & 3. 2. Let Definition 8.2 hold and let 0 ≤ ph < 1 in Desideratum 1.
Martin Peterson, 2008
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Questions and Questioning
Let p' be the proposition 'Bill solved the problem', the desideratum of (73) (a) can be formulated as follows. (74) K! (the manner in which p') where 'the manner' stands for 'the things which Bill did in order to solve the problem'. Recall that not all ...
Michel Meyer, 1988
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Medical Bibliography: A. and B.
It may be a desideratum, in maniacal cases, to estimate, if with propriety, the effect of exposing certain maniacs of a violent description to the influence of azotes, or of oxygen. It is a desideratum to know, what effect a cupping glass would have, ...
James Atkinson, 1834
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Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking
Desideratum of idealization: One should deform empirical reality into theoretical models in as different ways as possible. However: Desideratum of concretization: Each of these models must bc such that it can be approximated to the empirical ...
Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Katarzyna Paprzycka, 2012
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Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. & Isaac Levi
desideratum is truth value dependent where no error is ranked over a correct answer. The cognitive desideratum representing a concern for truth and nothing else (i.e., a concern for the truth and nothing but the truth or a concern to avoid error ...
Radu J. Bogdan, 1982
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Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing
7. willingness to step in on behalf of queer individuals when homophobia is being used against him/her The first desideratum takes its inspiration from Michael Warner's The Trouble with Normal in which he argues that we ought to take on a ...
Kelby Harrison, 2013
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›Umlaut‹ in Optimality Theory: A Comparative Analysis of ...
A Comparative Analysis of German and Chamorro Thomas B. Klein. the desideratum in (65) for these plurals. Note that I use [WPL] as a convenient shorthand to label the plurals at hand. (65) Desideratum for umlaut with [OWL] ...
Thomas B. Klein, 2000
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The Desideratum: Or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful. by a ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
John Wesley, 2010
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The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social ...
For each desideratum the section(s) of a manuscript in which the specific issue should most likely be addressed is denoted with (I) Introduction, (M) Methods, (R) Results, and (D) Discussion. Typically the desiderata appear in a single table; ...
Greg Hancock, Ralph O. Mueller, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESIDERATUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term desideratum is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Europe sans union
... within the political implementation of what the euro zone's member states ought to have done to ensure that it met Mundell's desideratum. «Livemint, Jul 15»
2
Ghana's Educational System - Factional Elitism versus Functional …
These two sectors are a desideratum and sine qua non for rapid development. Let us develop a new educational paradigm which will ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
3
A becoming reticence
Of course, this desideratum is frustrated when you carve out multifarious exceptions to the doctrine on the exhaustion of administrative ... «Manila Standard Today, Jun 15»
4
“Listed companies provide a lot of useless information which only …
I recognise that the principle of a true and fair view of companies continues to be a desideratum rather than a fact. Q. Do you not think that when ... «The Corner Economic, Jun 15»
5
Allvoice v. Microsoft: When Is A Claim Not A Claim?
If they followed "comprising" the inventor would be claiming a result, a desideratum, rather than claiming an invention yielding that result. «Mondaq News Alerts, Jun 15»
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Chocolate and Melancholia
In this domain, bitterness is in fact an immediate and urgent desideratum. But the fuller horizon in which bitterness is appropriate includes every preoccupation ... «Chabad.org, Jun 15»
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HERBERT LONDON: A modern balance of power
Equilibrium, or Metternichism desideratum, does not emerge spontaneously. American diplomacy would be helpful, if only a strategic global ... «Washington Times, Jun 15»
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Ecomodernism and the Anthropocene
... of the traditional green imagination and the 'domesticated garden' that is the supposed desideratum of the new school,” Lewis concludes. «Energy Collective, Jun 15»
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Andrew Coyne: Guarantee a minimum income, not a minimum wage
The guaranteed minimum income has been the desideratum of generations of economists and welfare theorists, from the left and the right. «National Post, Jun 15»
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An Interview with Dave Hunt (Anaal Nathrakh) : “Is it a double-ended …
Anaal Nathakh's newest album Desideratum is out now on Metal Blade Records. You can also follow them on Twitter at @ANOfficial. 13. Share. 13. Share. 0. «RockSins, Jun 15»

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