Vicious circle
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
vicious circle
n 1: one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first [syn:
vicious cycle]
2: an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "vicious circle":
absurdity, aimlessness, annular muscle, annulus,
apparent soundness, areola, aureole, bootlessness, casuistry,
chain of circumstances, chain reaction, chaplet,
chapter of accidents, circle, circuit, circularity, circumference,
circus, closed circle, concatenation of events, corona, coronet,
crown, cycle, diadem, discus, disingenuousness, disk, distortion,
emptiness, equivocalness, equivocation, eternal return,
evasive reasoning, fairy ring, fallaciousness, fallacy, fatuity,
feast and famine, fecklessness, fruitlessness, futility, garland,
glory, halo, hollowness, impotence, inanity, ineffectiveness,
ineffectuality, inefficacy, ins and outs, insincerity, jesuitism,
jesuitry, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle,
meaninglessness, misapplication, mystification, noose, nugacity,
obfuscation, obscurantism, orbit, otiosity, oversubtlety,
perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness,
pointlessness, profitlessness, purposelessness, radius, rat race,
rationalization, ring, rondelle, round, roundel, saucer, sophism,
sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading,
speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, sphincter, subtlety,
the absurd, triviality, unproductiveness, unprofitability,
unprofitableness, ups and downs, valuelessness, vanity,
vicious reasoning, vicissitudes, vicissitudes of fortune, wheel,
worthlessness, wreath
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