English
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Noun
vicious circle (plural vicious circles)
- A situation in which the solution to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
- (logic) A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
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situation in which the solution to a problem creates another problem
- Armenian: արատավոր շրջան (aratavor šrǰan)
- Asturian: círculu viciosu m
- Azeri: çıxılmaz vəziyyət
- Basque: gurpil zoro
- Belarusian: заганны круг (zahanny kruh)
- Bulgarian: омагьо́сан кръг m (omagjósan krǎg)
- Catalan: cercle viciós m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惡性循環 (zh), 恶性循环 (zh) (èxìng xúnhuán)
- Corsican: chjerchju viziosu m
- Czech: bludný kruh m
- Danish: ond cirkel c
- Dutch: vicieuze cirkel (nl) m
- Esperanto: malvirta cirklo
- Estonian: nőiaring
- Finnish: noidankehä
- French: cercle vicieux (fr) m
- Friulian: cercli viziôs m
- Galician: círculo vicioso m
- German: Teufelskreis (de) m
- Greek: φαύλος κύκλος (el) m (fávlos kýklos)
- Hungarian: ördögi kör (hu)
- Icelandic: vítahringur m
- Ido: vicioza cirklo
- Indonesian: lingkaran setan (id)
- Interlingua: circulo vitiose
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- Italian: cerchio vizioso m, circolo vizioso m
- Japanese: 悪循環 (ja) (あくじゅんかん, akujunkan)
- Korean: 악순환 (ko) (aksunhwan) (惡循環 (ko))
- Latin: circulus vitiosus m
- Latvian: burvju loks
- Lithuanian: užburtas ratas m
- Lower Sorbian: cartojske koło n (literary), cartowy krejz m (colloquial)
- Macedonian: ма́ѓепсан круг m (máǵepsan krug)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ond sirkel m
- Polish: błędne koło (pl) n
- Portuguese: círculo vicioso m
- Romanian: cerc vicios (ro) n, cercuri vicioase pl
- Romansch: circul vizius m
- Russian: за́мкнутый круг m (zámknutyj krug), заколдо́ванный круг (ru) m (zakoldóvannyj krug), поро́чный круг (ru) m (poróčnyj krug)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зачарани круг m
- Latin: začarani krug m
- Slovak: začarovaný kruh m, bludný kruh m
- Slovene: začarani krog m
- Spanish: círculo vicioso m
- Swedish: ond cirkel
- Thai: วัฏจักรเลวร้าย (wát-dtà-jàk leo ráai)
- Turkish: kısır döngü (tr)
- Ukrainian: порочне коло (poročne kolo)
- Welsh: cylch cythreulig f
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fallacy
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- Irish: ciorcal lochtach m
- Japanese: 循環論法 (junkanronpou)
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