Synonyms and related words :
airy nothing, alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, bubble, chimera, compensation, daydream, deception, decompensation, defense mechanism, deluded belief, delusion, dereistic thinking, displacement, dissociation, dream, dream vision, dreamery, dreamland, dreamworld, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, false belief, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, flight of fancy, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, ignis fatuus, illusion, imaginative exercise, impracticality, isolation, misbelief, misconception, negativism, overcompensation, pipe dream, play of fancy, projection, psychotaxis, quixotism, quixotry, rationalization, resistance, romance, romanticism, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, trick, trip, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, utopianism, vapor, visionariness, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, wrong impression