English

Noun

Tinkerbell ‎(plural Tinkerbells)

1. Anything whose existence or power depends on the faith of believers.
   • 1988, Caroline Arden, Getting the Donkey Out of the Ditch: The Democratic Party in Search of Itself, page 104

     I characterize it as the "Tinkerbell Approach" to policy development: It might work if all the children would just believe hard enough and clap their hands

   • 1994, Alice Thomas Ellis, Cat Among the Pigeons: A Catholic Miscellany, page 57

     Sometimes I get the impression that the Tinkerbell theory is taking over: that the existence of God is dependent on our own existence and perceptions.

   • 2003, William Lehr, Lorenzo M. Pupillo, Cyber policy and economics in an internet age, page 92

     The New.net venture underlined an important principle: ICANN's authority over the DNS root is fundamentally subject to the "Tinkerbell" principle.

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• Tinkerbell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia