Definition of "self-fulfilling" [self-fulfilling]

• Achieving fulfillment as a result of having been expected or foretold: a self-fulfilling prophecy. (adjective)
• Achieving self-fulfillment. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Deanna had never expected to be involved in a mission that required her to don the garment, and wondered how much of the nickname was self-fulfilling."
• "When you think optimistically, you’ll help fashion a better tomorrow it’s called the self-fulfilling prophecy."
• "Reagan seemed to gloat when government failed, and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy: He cut program budgets and appointed inept people to run federal agencies, and lo and behold, government failed."