Word of the Day: velleity

velleity (n)

A slight wish; a mild desire.

"The dope salesman may know everything that's ever going to happen to Tchitcherine, and decide it's no use - or, out of the moment's velleity, lay it right out for the young fool."
--Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

I have many velleities throughout the day, like anyone: to be warmer, for a cup of coffee, to conjure something to write about, to retrocede time. For a break. For a laugh. For something that might surprise you. Sometimes they even manifest. My wishes are not equine, but I've ridden a few.