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],
"word": "wishful thinking"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pensamento desejoso"
},
{
"alt": "used with verbs выдавать (vydavatʹ) and принимать (prinimatʹ)",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prinjátije želájemovo za dejstvítelʹnoje",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "приня́тие жела́емого за действи́тельное"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"word": "samozavaravanje"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ilusión"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espejismo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pensamiento ilusorio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "voluntarismo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "el cuento de la lechera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "önsketänkande"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "illusion that what one would like is true",
"word": "hüsnükuruntu"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"wishful thinking"
],
"word": "wishful thinking"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "en",
"3": "wishful thinking"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English wishful thinking",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English wishful thinking.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "-",
"nolinkhead": "1"
},
"expansion": "wishful thinking m (uncountable)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese multiword terms",
"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese terms borrowed from English",
"Portuguese terms derived from English",
"Portuguese terms spelled with K",
"Portuguese terms spelled with W",
"Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English",
"Portuguese uncountable nouns",
"pt:Psychology"
],
"glosses": [
"wishful thinking"
],
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
],
[
"wishful thinking",
"wishful thinking#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychology) wishful thinking"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pensamento desejoso"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "wishful thinking"
}
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