autosuggestion
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- autosuggestibility noun
- autosuggestible adjective
- autosuggestionist noun
- autosuggestive adjective
Etymology
Origin of autosuggestion
First recorded in 1885–90; auto- 1 + suggestion
Example Sentences
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I'm sure he absorbed chemistry by autosuggestion, because certainly he was walking in his sleep when he left home washed, properly dressed, fed and equipped with lunch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion?
From Time Magazine Archive
The reappearance of these hairs after the grafting operation certainly cannot be ascribed to autosuggestion, to which certain critics have ascribed other phenomena that follow the greffes testiculaires.
From Time Magazine Archive
The undertaker thereupon makes D�sir� sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Sleep on it" still remains the best counsel for those in perplexity, but they should preface their slumbers by the positive autosuggestion that on waking they will find the difficulty resolved.
From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile
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