'wishful thinking' definitions:
Definition of 'wishful thinking'
(from WordNet)
noun
The illusion that what you wish for is actually true
Synonyms of 'wishful thinking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blame-shifting,
- blind faith,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conning,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- daydream,
- daydreaming,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
- disposition to believe,
- dissociation,
- dotage,
- dreamery,
- dupery,
- ease of belief,
- emotional insulation,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fondness,
- fooling,
- gross credulity,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- infatuation,
- isolation,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nostalgia,
- outwitting,
- overcompensation,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overreaching,
- overtrustfulness,
- phantasm,
- play of fancy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- putting on,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rash conviction,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unpracticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- utopianism,
- victimization,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- will to believe,
- willful misconception,
- willingness to believe,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful belief,
- wishfulness,
- wistful eye,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- yearnfulness