power of suggestion

English

Noun

power of suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural powers of suggestion)

  1. (psychology, parapsychology) The idea or theory in which one individual guides the thoughts and behavior of another through a suggestion or a proposal.
    • 1910, Charles Reynolds Brown, Faith and Health, page 186:
      The power of suggestion does not accomplish everything; no more does surgery or medicine or any other agent.
    • 1913, Fernando, Swiss hypnotist, Practical Psychology, A Practical Work on Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mental Healing, Auto-suggestion and Allied Phenoma with a Special Practical Course in Suggestive Therapeutics, Magnetic Healing, Personal Magnetism, page 14:
      In some persons the power of suggestion is naturally strong. They unconsciously use it to good effect. This explains why some men are better politicians than others. Also why some men are "natural born salesmen".
    • 1917, Ralph Waldo Trine, The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit, page 140:
      Intuitively he perceived the existence and the nature of the subjective mind, and in connection with it the tremendous powers of suggestion.
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