hyperstition

== English == === Etymology === Modelled on superstition (“belief, not based on reason, that one's behaviour can magically influence events”) === Noun === 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. ==== Related terms ==== hyperstitious === Anagrams === hyponitrites