self-perpetuating
English
Etymology
Adjective
self-perpetuating (comparative more self-perpetuating, superlative most self-perpetuating)
- Causing itself to continue to exist.
- The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.
- It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.
Related terms
- (n): self-perpetuation
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