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- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- conceit,
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- dereistic thinking,
- dreamery,
- fancy,
- fantasticism,
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- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- imagination,
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- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- romance,
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- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- utopianism,
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- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- impracticality
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- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- awkwardness,
- bulkiness,
- clumsiness,
- cumbersomeness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dreamery,
- flight of fancy,
- hulkiness,
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- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticability,
- inconvenience,
- inoperability,
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- play of fancy,
- ponderousness,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- uncompassability,
- unhandiness,
- unmanageability,
- unpracticability,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unrealizability,
- unwieldiness,
- unworkability,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- idealization
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- a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
- something that exists only as an idea
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad related words >
- Prospero,
- airiness,
- appearance,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- delusiveness,
- dematerialization,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- disembodiment,
- dreamery,
- etherealization,
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- false appearance,
- false light,
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- falseness,
- flight of fancy,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- imaginative exercise,
- immateriality,
- immaterialization,
- impracticality,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- play of fancy,
- prestidigitation,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- spiritualization,
- unactuality,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsubstantialization,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- romanticism
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- impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality" related words >
- affection,
- affectionateness,
- amativeness,
- amorousness,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- bathos,
- bleeding heart,
- cloyingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dreamery,
- ecstasy,
- enchantment,
- flight of fancy,
- goatishness,
- goo,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- horniness,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- lovelornness,
- lovesickness,
- maudlinness,
- mawkishness,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- namby-pamby,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nostalgia,
- nostomania,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- play of fancy,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rapture,
- romance,
- sentiment,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- sexiness,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- slush,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- susceptibility,
- sweetness and light,
- tearjerker,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- alienation,
- ardor,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- blame-shifting,
- compensation,
- concupiscence,
- curiosity,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- desideration,
- desire,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- dreamery,
- drive,
- eagerness,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fancy,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- hope,
- horme,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- intellectual curiosity,
- isolation,
- libido,
- lust for learning,
- mind,
- need,
- negativism,
- overcompensation,
- passion,
- play of fancy,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- sexual desire,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- thirst for knowledge,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- urge,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- want,
- wanting,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
- airy nothing,
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- blame-shifting,
- bubble,
- chimera,
- compensation,
- daydream,
- deception,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
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- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamery,
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- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- false belief,
- fantasizing,
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- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- isolation,
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- negativism,
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- pipe dream,
- play of fancy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- quixotism,
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- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
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- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- sublimation,
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- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- utopianism,
- vapor,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- wrong impression
- unreality
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- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
- the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact related words >
- Prospero,
- absence,
- airiness,
- appearance,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- bodilessness,
- delusiveness,
- deprivation,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dreamery,
- emptiness,
- ethereality,
- fallaciousness,
- false appearance,
- false light,
- false show,
- falseness,
- flight of fancy,
- flimsiness,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- imaginative exercise,
- immateriality,
- impalpability,
- imponderability,
- impracticality,
- incorporeality,
- insubstantiality,
- intangibility,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mistiness,
- negation,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihility,
- nonbeing,
- nonentity,
- nonexistence,
- nonoccurrence,
- nonreality,
- nonsubsistence,
- not-being,
- nothingness,
- nullity,
- play of fancy,
- prestidigitation,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- subtility,
- subtlety,
- tenuity,
- tenuousness,
- unactuality,
- unconcreteness,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unsolidity,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsubstantialness,
- utopianism,
- vacancy,
- vacuity,
- vacuum,
- vagueness,
- visionariness,
- void,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- idealism
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- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality related words >
- Berkeleianism,
- Geistesgeschichte,
- Hegelian idea,
- Hegelianism,
- Kantian idea,
- Kantianism,
- Neoplatonism,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- Platonism,
- absolute idealism,
- animatism,
- animism,
- archetype,
- aspiration,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- bigheartedness,
- bigness,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- complex idea,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dream,
- dreamery,
- elevation,
- errantry,
- eternal object,
- eternal universal,
- exaltation,
- exemplar,
- flight of fancy,
- form,
- formal cause,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great heart,
- greatheartedness,
- greatness,
- greatness of heart,
- heroism,
- high goal,
- high-mindedness,
- highest category,
- history of ideas,
- hylozoism,
- ideal,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ideals,
- ideate,
- ideatum,
- idee-force,
- imaginative exercise,
- immaterialism,
- impracticality,
- innate idea,
- knight-errantry,
- knightliness,
- largeheartedness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- loftiness,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimousness,
- materialism,
- metaphysical idealism,
- model,
- monistic idealism,
- nobility,
- noble-mindedness,
- nobleness,
- noosphere,
- noumenon,
- openhandedness,
- panpsychism,
- pattern,
- percept,
- personalism,
- play of fancy,
- princeliness,
- prototype,
- psychism,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- reaching high,
- regulative first principle,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- simple idea,
- solipsism,
- spiritualism,
- subjectivism,
- sublimity,
- subsistent form,
- the Absolute,
- the Absolute Idea,
- the Self-determined,
- the realized ideal,
- transcendent idea,
- transcendent nonempirical concept,
- transcendent universal,
- transcendental,
- universal,
- universal concept,
- universal essence,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- upward looking,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- wishful thinking
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- the illusion that what you wish for is actually true related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blame-shifting,
- blind faith,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conning,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- daydream,
- daydreaming,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
- disposition to believe,
- dissociation,
- dotage,
- dreamery,
- dupery,
- ease of belief,
- emotional insulation,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fondness,
- fooling,
- gross credulity,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- infatuation,
- isolation,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nostalgia,
- outwitting,
- overcompensation,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overreaching,
- overtrustfulness,
- phantasm,
- play of fancy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- putting on,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rash conviction,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unpracticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- utopianism,
- victimization,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- will to believe,
- willful misconception,
- willingness to believe,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful belief,
- wishfulness,
- wistful eye,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- yearnfulness
- autism
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- (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people related words >
- acquisitiveness,
- airy nothing,
- alienation,
- anesthesia,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bashfulness,
- blame-shifting,
- bubble,
- careerism,
- catatonia,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- chimera,
- cold blood,
- cold heart,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compensation,
- coolness,
- daydream,
- deadpan,
- deception,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- displacement,
- dissociability,
- dissociation,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamery,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dullness,
- ego trip,
- egotism,
- emotional deadness,
- emotional insulation,
- emotionlessness,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- false belief,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- heartlessness,
- iciness,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- immovability,
- impassibility,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impracticality,
- incompatibility,
- individualism,
- inexcitability,
- insociability,
- interest,
- isolation,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of touch,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mopishness,
- moroseness,
- narcissism,
- negativism,
- objectivity,
- obtuseness,
- overcompensation,
- passionlessness,
- personal aims,
- personal ambition,
- personal desires,
- personalism,
- pipe dream,
- play of fancy,
- poker face,
- possessiveness,
- privatism,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rationalization,
- remoteness,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-absorption,
- self-admiration,
- self-advancement,
- self-centeredness,
- self-consideration,
- self-containment,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- self-devotion,
- self-esteem,
- self-indulgence,
- self-interest,
- self-interestedness,
- self-jealousy,
- self-occupation,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-solicitude,
- self-sufficiency,
- selfishness,
- selfism,
- social incompatibility,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- soullessness,
- spiritlessness,
- straight face,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- sullenness,
- trick,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- uncompanionability,
- uncongeniality,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unfriendliness,
- ungeniality,
- ungregariousness,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionableness,
- unpassionateness,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsociability,
- unsociableness,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- utopianism,
- vapor,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- wrong impression
- romance
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- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- the group of languages derived from Latin
- relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"
- have a love affair with related words >
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- adventure,
- adventure story,
- affair,
- allegorize,
- allegory,
- amor,
- amour,
- apologue,
- apparition,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- balderdash,
- bedtime story,
- brainchild,
- brown-nose,
- bubble,
- butter up,
- canard,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- chimera,
- color,
- colorfulness,
- concoction,
- court,
- cuckoldry,
- dalliance,
- delirium,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- detective story,
- divertissement,
- dreamery,
- eidolon,
- entanglement,
- epic,
- eternal triangle,
- exaggeration,
- excitement,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fabrication,
- fabulize,
- fairy tale,
- fancy,
- fantasia,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fascination,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fictionalize,
- figment,
- flatter,
- flight of fancy,
- flirtation,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- forbidden love,
- forgery,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- glamor,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- horse opera,
- humoresque,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- idealize,
- idle fancy,
- idyll,
- illicit love,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imaginative exercise,
- imaginativeness,
- imagining,
- impracticality,
- infidelity,
- insubstantial image,
- intrigue,
- invention,
- legend,
- liaison,
- love,
- love affair,
- love story,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- medley,
- melodrama,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythicize,
- mythify,
- mythologize,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- narrate,
- narrative,
- nonsense,
- nostalgia,
- novel,
- novelize,
- nursery tale,
- pander to,
- parable,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- play of fancy,
- potpourri,
- prevarication,
- quixotism,
- quixotize,
- quixotry,
- recite,
- recount,
- rehearse,
- relate,
- relationship,
- report,
- retell,
- rhapsodize,
- romantic tie,
- romanticism,
- romanticize,
- romanza,
- science fiction,
- sentiment,
- shocker,
- sick fancy,
- soft-soap,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- storify,
- story,
- suspense story,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- tell,
- tell a story,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thriller,
- triangle,
- trip,
- unfaithfulness,
- unfold a tale,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- utopianism,
- utopianize,
- vapor,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- white lie,
- whodunit,
- wildest dreams,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- woo,
- work of fiction
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