self-fulfilling
adjEtymology
From self- + fulfilling.
Definitions
Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.
- The prediction of poor turnout for the event was self-fulfilling: once people heard the turnout would be bad, they didn't come.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for self-fulfilling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA