Usually means: Expectation that causes itself to happen.
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  1. self-fulfilling: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-fulfilling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-fulfilling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-fulfilling, self-fulfilling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Self-Fulfilling, Self-fulfilling, self-fulfilling: Wordnik
  6. self-fulfilling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. self-fulfilling: Wiktionary
  8. self-fulfilling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. self-fulfilling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. self-fulfilling: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. self-fulfilling: Dictionary.com
  12. self-fulfilling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. self-fulfilling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.

Similar:
autoinductive, autoreflexive, self-consistent, corollary, self-similar, selfconsistent, consequent, procyclical, paradoxical, self-affine, more...

Opposite:
self-defeating, self-destructive, self-sabotaging

Phrases:
self-fulfilling prophecy, self-fulfilling prophecies, more...



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Similar:
autoinductive, autoreflexive, self-consistent, corollary, self-similar, selfconsistent, consequent, procyclical, paradoxical, self-affine, more...

Opposite:
self-defeating, self-destructive, self-sabotaging

Phrases:
self-fulfilling prophecy, self-fulfilling prophecies, more...



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