hyperstition

English

Etymology

Modelled on superstition (“belief, not based on reason, that one's behaviour can magically influence events”)

Noun

hyperstition (plural hyperstitions)

1. 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.

Related terms

• hyperstitious

Anagrams

• hyponitrites