wishful thinking (n.)
- alienation
- autism
- befooling
- circumvention
- compensation
- credulity
- credulousness
- daydream
- daydreaming
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- displacement
- dissociation
- dotage
- dupery
- entanglement
- entrapment
- escape
- escapism
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- fantasy
- flight
- flimflam
- fondness
- fooling
- hallucination
- ideal
- idealism
- ideality
- idealization
- illusion
- impracticality
- infatuation
- isolation
- mirage
- negativism
- nostalgia
- overcompensation
- overcredulity
- phantasm
- projection
- quixotism
- rationalization
- resistance
- romance
- romanticism
- self-deception
- sublimation
- substitution
- subterfuge
- trickiness
- trustfulness
- unrealism
- unreality
- utopianism
- victimization
- vision
- wishfulness
- wistfulness
- withdrawal
