Tinkerbell

Etymology
After a fairy in J M Barrie's Peter Pan (1902).

Noun

 * 1) Anything the existence or power of which depends on the faith of believers.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French: Fée Clochette


 * Spanish: Campanita
 * Swedish: Tingeling