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autosuggestion
[ aw-toh-suhg-jes-chuhn, -suh- ]
noun
, Psychology.
- suggestion arising from oneself, as the repetition of verbal messages as a means of changing behavior.
autosuggestion
/ ˌɔːtəʊsəˈdʒɛstʃən /
noun
- a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
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Derived Forms
- ˌautosugˈgestive, adjective
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Other Words From
- auto·sug·gesti·ble adjective
- auto·sug·gesti·bili·ty noun
- auto·sug·gestion·ist noun
- auto·sug·gestive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of autosuggestion1
First recorded in 1885–90; auto- 1 + suggestion
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Example Sentences
It is at this point that the ordinary book on autosuggestion breaks down—so far as any practical usefulness is concerned.
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By autosuggestion the stronger minds produce ideas which when set afloat pass by suggestion from mind to mind.
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Autosuggestion is an instrument which you have to learn how to use just as you would for any other instrument.
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It may have been autosuggestion, induced by the child's great need of him, but whatever it was was vaguely soothing.
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Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it is as old as the world.
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