hyperstition
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Modelled on superstition (“belief, not based on reason, that one's behaviour can magically influence events”)
Noun
[edit]hyperstition (plural hyperstitions)
- 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.