hyperstition
Meanings
noun
- A cultural belief (especially a work of fiction) that makes itself real; a cultural self-fulfilling prophecy where some cultural idea or hype truly brings about the thing it describes.
Word forms
Etymology
Modelled on superstition (“belief, not based on reason, that one's behaviour can magically influence events”)
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