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

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

Before every trip, with self-hypnosis and self-suggestion, I erase my own memories—a sort of artificial amnesia—so that the Lhari can't find out any more than I want them to find out.

From The Colors of Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Fearthought he defines as the "self-suggestion of inferiority"; so that one may say that these systems all operate by the suggestion of power.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

Any self-suggestion, conscious or unconscious, which places before the supraliminal intelligence visual images apparently matured elsewhere?

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

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