demand vs wish

demand

noun
  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • An urgent request. 

  • An order. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • A requirement. 

  • More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval. 

verb
  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

wish

noun
  • The thing desired or longed for. 

  • An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power. 

  • A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen. 

  • A water meadow. 

verb
  • To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur. 

  • To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of. 

  • I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now. 

  • To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something). 

  • To desire; to want. 

  • To request or desire to do an activity. 

How often have the words demand and wish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )