aspiration

noun

• 1 (usually aspirations) a hope or ambition of achieving something:the needs and aspirations of the people [mass noun]:the yawning gulf between aspiration and reality

• 2 [mass noun] Medicine the action or process of drawing breath.
• the action of drawing fluid by suction from a vessel or cavity: bathing solutions were changed by careful aspiration

• 3 [mass noun] Phonetics the action of pronouncing a sound with an exhalation of breath: there is no aspiration if the syllable begins with s