ouroboric
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ouroboric (comparative more ouroboric, superlative most ouroboric)
- Self-referring, self-reflexive, self-consuming; recursive
- Relating to the Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail.
- What could be more ouroboric than members of the media who specialize in blaming the media.
- Going back in time and becoming one's own grandfather is a rather ouroboric endeavour
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 17:
- Like the ouroboric serpent which bites its own tail, the spinal column brings the mysteries of language and sexuality, mouth and genitals together.
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self-referring, self-reflexive, self-consuming; recursive
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relating to Ouroboros
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