Desire
Objective
Objective noun - Something that one hopes or intends to accomplish.
Usage example: the summer camp's stated objective is to produce tournament-level tennis players
Desire and objective are semantically related in purpose topic. Sometimes you can use "Desire" instead a noun "Objective", if it concerns topics such as idea.
How words are described
| human | human desire | human objective |
| clear | clear desire | clear objective |
| particular | particular desire | particular objective |
| similar | similar desire | similar objective |
| Other adjectives: common, specific, stated, true, obvious, simple, actual, real, great, main, personal, secret, ultimate, new, sole, understandable, apparent, shared, hidden, basic, single-minded. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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At the end of the book he puts Cabal in an fantasy where he gets his fondest desire-and it backfires badly Cabal lives (and dies) an entire life of decades and then returns to see that basically no objective time has passed.
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In The Bacta War, he's constantly advising Isard on the best method to root out the problem of Wedge Antilles and his squadron, even if it doesn't appeal to Isard's desire for blood (and her primary objective to "destroy the Rebels").
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