💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Strange loop"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| time loopnoun | (chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken. |
| loopingnoun | Something that loops; a looped pattern or action. |
| closed loopnoun | A feedback loop, especially when found in: |
| circularismnoun | A circular approach or situation, in which one goes round in circles without making progress. |
| closed time loopnoun | (science fiction) A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past. |
| core loopnoun | Synonym of compulsion loop. |
| circular referencenoun | (computing) A series of references, where the last object references the first. |
| circlenoun | (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center). |
| feedback loopnoun | A self-reinforcing or self-weakening effect. |
| paradoxnoun | An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. |
| vicious cyclenoun | Alternative form of vicious circle. [A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.] |
| endless chainnoun | A chain having the ends joined to one another so as to form a continuous loop. |
| vicious circlenoun | A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one. |
| groundhog daynoun | (informal) A situation in which events appear to be repeating themselves in a cyclical fashion. |
| yablo's paradoxnoun | A logical paradox resembling the liar paradox but using, instead of a single sentence, an infinite sequence of statements, each referring to the truth values of the later statements in the sequence, and thus attempting to avoid circularity. |
| cyclicitynoun | (uncountable) The state of recurring at regular intervals; of being cyclic. |
| palindromenoun | A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics. |
| back-and-forthingnoun | The situation where something figuratively oscillates back and forth. |
| alogismnoun | Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth. |
| positive feedbacknoun | (figurative) Feedback which builds upon previous feedback. |
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