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self-suggestion

NOUN
suggestion
Synonyms
STRONGEST
indication notion suspicion thought
STRONG
allusion association autosuggestion breath clue connotation cue inkling innuendo insinuation intimation overtone reminder shade signification smack symbol symbolism symbolization symbology telltale tinge trace undertone vein whisper wind
WEAK
soupçon
Antonyms
STRONG
information
WEAK
declaration demand order telling

Example Sentences

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You will be surprised to see how quickly this sort of self-suggestion will brace you up and put new spirit in you.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

"It seems probable," says Dr. Wingfield, "that all phenomena capable of being produced by the suggestion of the hypnotiser can also be produced by self-suggestion in a self-suggestive subject."

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Somewhat similarly I believe some persons can secure a cheap substitute for genius on stage or platform, evoking by suggestion or self-suggestion a helpful subliminal uprush.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.

From A Fine Fix by Dongen, H. R. van

If such susceptibility to self-suggestion could be reached by patients generally, there might be, with no miracle at all, a removal of perhaps half the annoyance which deafness inflicts on mankind.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)