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Meaning of self-fulfilling prophecy

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

self-fulfilling

adjective

Definitions

  1. Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.

    Example: The prediction of poor turnout for the event was self-fulfilling: once people heard the turnout would be bad, they didn't come.