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polylemma (puh-lee-lEM-ma) - n., a situation with multiple undesirable options.
As opposed to a dilemma (in which there are two) and trilemma (three). Technically, for all these, it could be just "options," but outside of mathematics, the connotation of "undesirable" is so strong as to be a denotation. Coined by analogy to dilemma, using Greek roots poly-, many + lēmma, premise/proposition.
---L.
polylemma (puh-lee-lEM-ma) - n., a situation with multiple undesirable options.
As opposed to a dilemma (in which there are two) and trilemma (three). Technically, for all these, it could be just "options," but outside of mathematics, the connotation of "undesirable" is so strong as to be a denotation. Coined by analogy to dilemma, using Greek roots poly-, many + lēmma, premise/proposition.
---L.
