self-perpetuating
adjEtymology
From self- + perpetuating.
Definitions
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for self-perpetuating. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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