wishful thinking

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: wish=ful think=ing

THESAURUS

wishful thinking

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

ROGET THESAURUS

wishful thinking

Misjudgment

N misjudgment, obliquity of judgment, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception, hasty conclusion, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice, foregone conclusion, prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment, fixed idea, preconceived idea, id_ee fixe, mentis gratissimus error, fool's paradise, esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige, bias, bigotry, warp, twist, hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye, one-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one- sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions, narrow mind, bigotry, odium theologicum, pedantry, hypercriticism, doctrinaire, overestimation, underestimation, ignorance, erroneous assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions (error), misjudging, ill-judging, wrong-headed, prejudiced, jaundiced, shortsighted, purblind, partial, one-sided, superficial, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, mean-spirited, confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete, positive, dogmatic, conceited, opinative, opiniative, opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated, self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini=atre, bigoted, crotchety, fussy, impracticable, unreasonable, stupid credulous, warped, misjudged, ex parte, nothing like leather, the wish the father to the thought, wishful thinking, unshakable conviction, my mind is made up - don't bother me with the fact.