Self-fulfilling Definition

sĕlffo͝ol-fĭlĭng
adjective
Bringing about self-fulfillment.
Webster's New World
Brought to fulfillment chiefly as an effect of having been expected or predicted.
A self-fulfilling prophecy.
Webster's New World

Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.

The prediction of poor turn out for the event was self-fulfilling, once people heard the turn out would be bad, they didn't come so the turn out was bad.
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Self-fulfilling Sentence Examples

  • This pattern is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • If a task takes three or four times longer than it should simply because you are having a lazy afternoon and are allowing the Law to be self-fulfilling, it is a negative and you are not working efficiently.

  • She seeems to be caught in her own self-fulfilling vicious circle.

  • A history of such issues can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy in which the person with IED continues to have episodes of uncontrolled aggression because of the belief that he or she cannot overcome the past.

  • The fear of Friday the 13th may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy for Wall Street.

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