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magical thinking in American Englishnouna conviction that thinking is equivalent to doing, occurring in dreams, the thought patterns of children, and some types of mental disorders, esp. obsessive-compulsive disorder Examples of 'magical thinking' in a sentencemagical thinking There is an element of magical thinking even in looking at pictures.Apocalyptic and magical thinking coexisted with the strenuously rational.In pre-industrial societies, magical thinking was institutionalised.Hutson's definition of magical thinking is exceptionally broad.This sort of magical thinking can represent universal truths better than realism ever could.Magical thinking is part of everyone's adult psyche, albeit largely unconscious.It didn't work, of course, the magical thinking. |