vicious circle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
noun
A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
Example Sentences
- "Meanwhile street congestion grows worse and the vicious circle tightens of private motor-cars which impede L.T.E. buses in Central London and of exasperated bus travellers who therefore take to using their own cars."
- "But historical materialism cannot tell us why one is important and not the other, except on the ground that it is able to account for the latter-and this is clearly a vicious circle."