Talk:desire

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RFC discussion: January 2013–August 2017

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Sense 1: "More formal or stronger word for want." Sense 3: "Another word for want, connoting emotion." These definitions are terrible: "desire" doesn't mean "another word for want", it is another word for "want", just as "cat" doesn't mean "noun", it is a noun. They also seem redundant to one another. - -sche (discuss) 10:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

I don't think "another word for" is wrong so much as much it's pointless and bad style. It would be like starting definitions with "defined as" or "may be defined as". Mglovesfun (talk) 01:05, 13 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
Or "used to refer to", like "used to refer to a breed of domestic cat native to the Isle of Man" (Manx cat, hypothetical example). Mglovesfun (talk) 10:10, 15 January 2013 (UTC)Reply


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