0 a continuing unpleasant situation, created when one problem causes another problem that then makes the first problem worse:
1 a situation in which one problem causes another one, making the original problem impossible to solve:
Further, as we examine how agreements/compacts were actually made, we realize that there a kind of vicious circle between "coercion" and "voluntary will".
There is a vicious circle linking natural disasters with poverty: poor people suffer more drastically and have less resilience to enable reestablishment after disaster strikes.
The outcome was a vicious circle whereby women's work, perceived as low status, was poorly rewarded and therefore regarded as unimportant.
This feedback could create a dynamically unstable 'vicious circle' between population growth and resource depletion.
This being said, there is the potential downside of a vicious circle.
Thus, a vicious circle is established in which thoughts and congruent emotions fuel one another in an interlocked, continuous cycle.
This is the vicious circle in which researchers tend to become entrapped.
The vicious circle hypotheses suggests that the percentage of time allocated to collection activities would be much higher at young ages.
