Antonyms for autosuggestion

Grammar : Noun

Spell : aw-toh-suh g-jes-chuh n, -suh-

Phonetic Transcription : ˌɔ toʊ səgˈdʒɛs tʃən, -sə-

Definition of autosuggestion

Origin : also auto-suggestion, 1879, a hybrid from auto- + suggestion. The idea, and probably the model for the word, originally from French.

As in suggestion : noun hint, implication

Example sentences :

The thought of crime now becomes a sort of obsession or rather an autosuggestion.
Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg

Its connection with the phenomena of autosuggestion is very clear.
Extract from : « Great Pianists on Piano Playing » by James Francis Cooke

It is at this point that the ordinary book on autosuggestion breaks down—so far as any practical usefulness is concerned.
Extract from : « When Winter Comes to Main Street » by Grant Martin Overton

Then the autosuggestion "bobs up," common sense is side-tracked, we toss and worry—and of course stay awake.
Extract from : « Outwitting Our Nerves » by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

His story illustrates the power of an autosuggestion and the disastrous effect of attention to a physiological function.
Extract from : « Outwitting Our Nerves » by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

I am told by physicians that I am bodily sound, although very nervous, and that the fear is generated entirely by autosuggestion.
Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg

I have no doubt that this kind of autosuggestion plays a large rôle in her mind.
Extract from : « Psychology and Social Sanity » by Hugo Mnsterberg

One is inclined to suspect an element of autosuggestion in such a case; still, the coincidence is noteworthy.
Extract from : « Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) » by Havelock Ellis

By autosuggestion the stronger minds produce ideas which when set afloat pass by suggestion from mind to mind.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

Autosuggestion is an instrument which you have to learn how to use just as you would for any other instrument.
Extract from : « Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion » by Emile Cou

Synonyms for autosuggestion

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