Wishful vs Delusion - What's the difference?
wishful | delusion |
(obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
Expressing a wish or longing for something.
Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The state of being deluded or misled.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=William L. Shirer
, title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
, page=835
, publisher=Simon & Schuster
, location=New York
, isbn=0-671-72869-5
, id=LCCN 81101072
, passage=Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.}}
(Webster 1913)
As an adjective wishful
is (obsolete) wished-for; desired, wanted.As a noun delusion is
a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.wishful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The cry whereof entring the hollow cave / Eftsoones brought forth the villaine, as they ment, / With hope of her some wishfull boot to have.