Adjective
self-perpetuating (comparative more self-perpetuating, superlative most self-perpetuating)
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.
Folk music revivals main "It’s self-perpetuating, regenerative. Source: Internet
In this implementation, napalm fires can create an atmosphere of greater than 20% carbon monoxide and firestorms with self-perpetuating winds of up to convert. Source: Internet
Campbell inadvertently boiled down the most awful implications of modern science into this picture of the ever self-perpetuating and senseless striving of the living flesh. Source: Internet
In truth, starting a wildflower garden is often more work than putting in a perennial border and it is not necessarily self-perpetuating. Source: Internet
Noncentralized parties initially develop out of the constitutional arrangements of the federal compact, but once they have come into existence they tend to be self-perpetuating and to function as decentralizing forces in their own right. Source: Internet
Some of Pournelle's standard themes that recur in the stories are: Welfare States become self-perpetuating, building a technological society requires a strong defense and the rule of law, and "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it." Source: Internet