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Definition of Wishful Thinking in English :

Wishful Thinking

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Noun

1. wishful thinking

the illusion that what you wish for is actually true

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wishful Thinking

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noun

the erroneous belief that one's wishes are in accordance with reality

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Wishful Thinking

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thinking in which one consciously or unconsciously interprets facts in terms of what one would like to believe

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wishful Thinking

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n.

Thinking in which what one wishes were the case is believed to be real or likely to become real.

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