velleity

noun2

1. •
   The lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.

   • This connoisseuse of “splendid weaknesses”, run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope. — 1973
2. •
   A slight wish not followed by any effort to obtain.

   • —And so the conversation slips / Among velleities and carefully caught regrets / Through attenuated tones of violins / Mingled with remote cornets / And begins. — 1917