Desideratum

“Desideratum” – from the Latin – is something desired or considered necessary.

Example (as used by John Banville in the Irish Times): “No one in Berkeley – at least, no one I consorted with – thought art was for sissies, or that a pensionable job was the highest desideratum.”

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