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wishful thinking

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wishful thinking
n.
Identification of one's wishes or desires with reality.
wishful thinking
n
the erroneous belief that one's wishes are in accordance with reality
wishful thinker  n
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Noun1.wishful thinking - the illusion that what you wish for is actually true
fancy, phantasy, illusion, fantasy - something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
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It is not any more to my liking than anyone else, but I think that we need cool analysis rather than wishful thinking and easy solutions.
Just a small cog in a big wheel; Your Say by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
The politics of wishful thinking dictates that labour costs will keep rising, while the prices of goods and services remain constant.
Cyprus, the isle of wishful thinking by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
ED Miliband is one of Labour's deeper thinking ministers, but the projection in his Green Manifesto of 400,000 new green jobs seems like wishful thinking (The Journal, July 17).
Green jobs plan is wishful thinking; VOICE OF THE NORTH by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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