self-perpetuating

English

Etymology

self- +‎ perpetuating

Adjective

self-perpetuating (comparative more self-perpetuating, superlative most self-perpetuating)

  1. 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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.