vicious circle

vicious circle
    n 1: one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
         [syn: {vicious circle}, {vicious cycle}]
    2: an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
    

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