autosuggestion.

The influence a person's own repeated ideas or expectations can have on perception, feeling, or behavior.

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Words that belong together

• the power of autosuggestion
• through autosuggestion
• autosuggestion and expectation

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By the third night, she could no longer separate the footsteps from autosuggestion.

The doctor proposed autosuggestion, but the explanation did not account for the broken lock.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.