desideratum (n.)

• aim
• ambition
• animus
• aspiration
• catch
• counsel
• demand
• design
• desire
• determination
• effect
• essential
• function
• hope
• idea
• intent
• intention
• lodestone
• magnet
• meaning
• mind
• motive
• must
• necessity
• need
• nisus
• occasion
• plan
• plum
• point
• prerequisite
• prize
• project
• proposal
• prospectus
• purpose
• requirement
• requisite
• requisition
• resolution
• resolve
• sake
• striving
• study
• temptation
• trophy
• view
• want
• will
• wish