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.

Related terms

• (n): self-perpetuation