self-validating

[ self-val-i-dey-ting, self- ]

adjective

1. requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-validating¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

He was seen, in the words of the art historian Charles Ford, as “classicism’s ‘other’: the self-made, self-validating, craft-based painter for profit.”

From Washington Post

But they didn’t exist within an insular, self-validating community whose values and assumptions were often at odds with those of the rest of society.

From Seattle Times

But even under today’s grotesquely swollen presidency, presidential impatience is not a self-validating source of extra-constitutional power.

From Washington Post

He worries the hostility toward Beijing that’s widespread among the American foreign policy establishment is “overblown” and could become a “self-validating narrative,” deepening a climate of tensions that some analysts already cast as the 21st century Cold War.

From Washington Post

So when the President says the government is conspiring, the agencies are conspiring in some way or another to make him look bad, it's almost self-validating in the eyes of very, very many citizens.

From Salon