self-suggestion

1. 1.

   a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s

   Synonymsautosuggestionauto-suggestion

   Broaderself-improvement

Questions about self-suggestion

What does self-suggestion mean?

self-suggestion means "a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s".

How many syllables are in self-suggestion?

self-suggestion has 5 syllables: self--sug-ge-sti-on. The stress falls on "sti".

What is another word for self-suggestion?

Close synonyms include autosuggestion, auto-suggestion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-suggestion a common word?

self-suggestion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.