self-validating

American  

[self-val-i-dey-ting, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈvæl ɪˌdeɪ tɪŋ, ˈsɛlf- /

adjective

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

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Etymology

Origin of self-validating

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

In 2012, Lauren Rivera, a professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, coined the term "looking glass merit" to describe the unconscious tendency that humans have to define merit in a way that is self-validating.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2025

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 • Oct. 31, 2021

They encourage confirmatory, self-validating thought, rather than the exploratory thought that helps our politics stay aligned with reality.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2017

But what peeved me was the gratuitous takedown of live-alones, in a manner that seemed rather self-validating.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2015

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