Aspiration

Noun

 * 1) The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual.

Derived terms

 * aspirational

Noun

 * 1) The action of aspirating.
 * 2)  A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

Derived terms

 * aspirational
 * preaspiration

Thesaurus
Aqua-Lung; aim; allophone; alveolar; ambition; ambitiousness; animus; apico-alveolar; apico-dental; articulation; artificial respiration; assimilation; assumption; assurance; assured faith; asthmatic wheeze; basis; bated breath; bilabial; bleeding; bloodletting; breath; breath of air; breathing; breathy voice; broaching; broken wind; cacuminal; calling; cause; cerebral; check; cheerful expectation; confidence; consideration; consonant; continuant; conviction; cough; counsel; craving; cupping; dental; dependence; desideration; desideratum; design; desire; determination; diphthong; direction; dissimilation; doomed hope; drafting; drainage; draining; drawing; dream; effect; emptying; epenthetic vowel; exhalation; expectation; expiration; explosive; exsufflation; fair prospect; faith; fervent hope; fixed purpose; function; gasp; glide; glottal; glottalization; goal; good cheer; good hope; great expectations; ground; guiding light; guiding star; gulp; guttural; hack; hankering; hiccup; high goal; high hopes; hope; hopeful prognosis; hopefulness; hopes; hoping; hoping against hope; idea; ideal; idealism; ideals; inhalation; inhalator; inhalement; inspiration; insufflation; intendment; intent; intention; iron lung; labial; labialization; labiodental; labiovelar; laryngeal; lateral; lingual; liquid; little voice; lodestar; longing; low voice; lust; mainspring; manner of articulation; matter; meaning; milking; mind; modification; monophthong; morphophoneme; motive; mouth-to-mouth resuscitation; mumble; mumbling; murmur; murmuration; murmuring; mute; mutter; muttering; nasal; nisus; objective; occlusive; oxygen mask; oxygen tent; palatal; pant; parasitic vowel; passion; peak; pharyngeal; pharyngealization; phlebotomy; phone; phoneme; pipetting; plan; plosive; plot; point; prayerful hope; presumption; pretension; principle; project; promise; proposal; prospect; prospects; prospectus; prothetic vowel; puff; pumping; purpose; reaching high; reason; reliance; resolution; resolve; respiration; retroflex; sake; sanguine expectation; scheme; score; scuba; security; segmental phoneme; semivowel; sigh; siphoning; sneeze; sniff; sniffle; snore; snoring; snuff; snuffle; soft voice; sonant; sonority; source; speech sound; spring; stage whisper; sternutation; stertor; still small voice; stop; striving; study; suck; sucking; suction; surd; suspiration; susurration; susurrus; syllabic nucleus; syllabic peak; syllable; tapping; transition sound; triphthong; trust; ulterior motive; underbreath; undertone; upward looking; urge; velar; venesection; view; vocable; vocalic; vocation; vocoid; voice; voiced sound; voiceless sound; voicing; vowel; well-grounded hope; wheeze; whisper; whispering; will; wind; wish; yearning