Usually means: Hoping for outcomes without basis.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. wishful thinking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wishful thinking: Merriam-Webster
  3. wishful thinking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wishful thinking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wishful thinking: Vocabulary.com
  6. wishful-thinking: Wordnik
  7. wishful thinking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wishful thinking: Wiktionary
  9. wishful thinking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. wishful thinking: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wishful thinking: Dictionary.com
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  13. wishful thinking: Rhymezone
  14. wishful thinking: FreeDictionary.org
  15. wishful thinking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. wishful thinking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wishful thinking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wishful thinking: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  2. wishful thinking: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (wishful thinking)

noun:  (idiomatic, psychology) The illusion that what one would like to be true is actually true.
noun:  (idiomatic) Decision-making based on self-delusion.

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