Adjective
self-fulfilling (not comparable)
Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.
The prediction of poor turnout for the event was self-fulfilling: once people heard the turnout would be bad, they didn't come.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. Brian Tracy
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. Joan Robinson
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Arthur C. Clarke
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. Carl Sagan
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. Howard Zinn
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. Ruth Hubbard