self-fulfilling

adj

Etymology

From self- + fulfilling.

Definitions

  1. 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.

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