Usually means: Problem perpetuates itself through causes.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word vicious circle:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. vicious circle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vicious circle: Merriam-Webster
  3. vicious circle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vicious circle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vicious circle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vicious circle: Vocabulary.com
  7. vicious circle: Wordnik
  8. vicious circle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vicious circle: Wiktionary
  10. vicious circle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vicious circle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vicious circle: Dictionary.com
  13. The Vicious Circle, Vicious Circle (L.A. Guns album), Vicious Circle (comics), Vicious Circle (disambiguation), Vicious Circle (novel), Vicious Circle, Vicious circle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. vicious circle: Rhymezone
  15. vicious circle: FreeDictionary.org
  16. vicious circle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. vicious circle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vicious circle (disambiguation), vicious circle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Vicious circle (disambiguation), vicious circle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vicious Circle, vicious circle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See vicious_circles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vicious circle)

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:  (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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