unrealist

noun

un·​realist

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: one who exhibits unrealism in words or action

neither of them believes anything which has the slightest actual bearing on the course of economic events. They are unrealists, illusionists, players with ideas

—Nation

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

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