Wishful thinking - synonyms

Total 128 synonym synonyms found for 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