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I'm looking for a word that means a desire/wish that is improbable to be fulfilled ( and you can not do anything to change it).

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"Pipe dream" encompasses the first requirement (that the word or phrase must define a desire or wish that is improbable to achieve), but I don't know that it fully satisfied your second component (that the desire or wish in question be intrinsically unattainable)

If you need a single word only, "chimera" means basically the same thing, but is probably less widely known.

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I would use "yearning". In all examples I know, it has been used in the sense that it is a longing that carries the connotations of "intense", "unsatisfied", "never to be satisfied" or "very unlikely to be satisfied".

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