Recursive acronym
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A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself. The term was first used in print in 1979 in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in which Hofstadter invents the acronym GOD, meaning "GOD Over Djinn", to help explain infinite series, and describes it as a recursive acronym.
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See also
- RAS syndrome
- Self-reference
- Web Ontology Language
- Pleonasm#Bilingual tautological expressions
- Three-letter acronym
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