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What does wishful thinking mean?

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Noun
  1. (psychology) The illusion that what one would like is actually true.
  2. (idiomatic) Decision-making based on self-delusion.
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The idea that a walk-through might present an experience equivalent to actually being inside a building is wishful thinking indeed.
But the simple fact is, whether through wishful thinking or deliberate deceit, the administration uttered untruths.
This documented fact makes the writer's supposed statistic look like the wishful thinking of a fantasist.
A good bit of this is probably just wishful thinking on the part of Democratic politicos in Washington.
Pre-war, there was a strong whiff of wishful thinking in the coalition's plans for Basra.
But to say that it's all going to come out fine, that always struck me as being wishful thinking of the first order.

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