autosuggestibilityn.
/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)səˌdʒɛstᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊsə(ɡ)ˌdʒɛstəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /ˌɑdoʊsə(ɡ)ˌdʒɛstəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /ˌɔdəsə(ɡ)ˌdʒɛstəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /ˌɑdəsə(ɡ)ˌdʒɛstəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Susceptibility to suggestion originating from oneself; the capacity or fact of being influenced by autosuggestion.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychological study of oneself > suggestion originating from self > [noun] > capacity for
autosuggestibility1890
1890 tr. A. Forel Hypnotism in Wood's Med. & Surg. Monogr. V. ii. 201 We have to deal here with a constitutional, cerebral, or mental error which is probably not unrelated to an habitual morbid auto-suggestibility [Ger. Autosuggestibilität].
1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 89/1 Autosuggestibility, a peculiar mental state with loss of will, in which suggestions become easy.
1907 Mind 16 609 The auto-suggestibility preponderates in the severer cases.
1973 M. A. Natanson Critique Jean-Paul Sartre's Ontol. vii. 78 He explains the feelings held in such instances as varieties of psychological reactions (panic, auto-suggestibility, etc.) rather than true indicators of freedom.
2002 M. Keller Hammer & Flute i. 29 People who are vulnerable to autosuggestibility first experience an involuntary [spirit] possession. Then they begin voluntarily to induce the possession after experiencing [its] efficacy..for attracting attention.
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