wishful thinkers
Optimists ignoring reality
Wishful thinkers are people who believe something because they want it to be true rather than because evidence supports it.
The term carries a mildly dismissive tone, suggesting naivety or self-deception.
The analysts called them wishful thinkers for expecting the market to rebound so quickly.
Someone might be labeled a wishful thinker for holding onto hope despite clear signs pointing the other way.
- escapistSeeker of distraction
- dreamerOne given to fantasies
- head in the cloudsAbsorbed in fantasy
- motivated reasoningBiased cognition favoring preferences
- hoperOne who expects positively
false hope · silver lining · optimism · best case scenario · too good to be true · idealistic · daydreaming · fantasizing · confirmation bias · muser · self-deception · improbable · unrealistic · ambition · groupthink · overconfidence · utopianism · prophets
- dreamersdreamer, dreamers, daydreamer, daydreamers, visionary
- optimistsidealists, believers
wishful thinkersrealists
Those accepting things as-is
pragmatists · rationalists · skeptics · empiricists · critical thinkers
wishful thinkerspessimists
Those assuming negative outcomes
doomsayers · cynics · doom-and-gloomers · catastrophists · defeatists
wishful thinkerspreppers
People preparing for catastrophes
planners · doers · strategic thinkers · devil's advocates · men of action
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