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English
Etymology
From self- + fulfilling.
Adjective
self-fulfilling (not comparable)
- 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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:Whether or not we believe in astrology is irrelevant; the question is, did the Magdalenians? If so, then in a self-fulfilling prophecy they may have been organizing their lives according to a religious belief system, and not simply an economic or ecological one.
2011 August 7, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times:This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld.
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Translations
describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted