Word.ws English Dictionary

hyperstitions

hyperstitions is the plural of hyperstition.

Meaning of hyperstition

Noun

hyperstition (plural hyperstitions)

  1. (uncommon) A cultural belief (especially a work of fiction) that makes itself real; a cultural self-fulfilling prophecy where some cultural idea or hype truly brings about the thing it describes.
    • A hyperstition can be loosely defined as a fictional work or belief system that somehow gradually takes on the appearance of reality. Obviously based on the concept of superstition, hyperstition is distinguished by being predominantly digitally spawned and proliferated.2005, Dave Szulborski, This is Not a Game: A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming, Incunabula, →ISBN

Questions about hyperstitions

What is hyperstitions the plural of?
Hyperstitions is the plural of hyperstition.

Words near hyperstitions in the dictionary

  1. hyperstimulations
  2. hyperstimulatory
  3. hyperstimuli
  4. hyperstimulus
  5. hyperstition
  6. hyperstitions
  7. hyperstitious
  8. hyperstoichiometric
  9. hyperstomatic
  10. hyperstomatous
  11. hyperstomial

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hyperstitions (page history and authors); hyperstition (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hyperstitions.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hyperstitions. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.