desideratum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something considered necessary or highly desirable

   Reliable public transport remains a major desideratum of the regional plan.

Borrowed from Latin desideratum ("something desired"), the neuter past participle of desiderare ("to desire, long for"). Its usual English plural, desiderata, preserves the Latin neuter plural ending.

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