Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 3 compound words that contain dilemma. The most common are listed below. Open dilemma in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- innovator's dilemmaThe observation that well-established companies tend to concentrate on improving existing products, leaving them vulnerable to new competitors and disruptive technologies.
- Heinz dilemmaA thought experiment in ethics, involving a dilemma of whether saving a life justifies theft or other illegal activities.
- false dilemmaA situation in which two opposing options are presented as the only possibilities, when others are available.
- Goldman's dilemmaThe question of whether an athlete would choose to take a drug that would guarantee overwhelming success in sport, but cause them to die after five years.
- table-maker's dilemmaThe problem of the unknown cost of rounding transcendental functions.
- on the horns of a dilemmaFacing a choice between two equally undesirable alternatives.
- agency dilemmaSynonym of principal-agent problem: The problem that a person or entity serving as an agent for another, and able to make decisions on the other's behalf, may be motivated instead to make decisions that benefit themselves.
- Euthyphro dilemmaA dilemma as to whether things that are morally good are commanded by God because they are morally good, or whether they are morally good because they are God's commands.
- centipede's dilemmaSynonym of Humphrey's law: The phenomenon where focusing on details of a task, which are normally done without thought, makes the task difficult.
- Faustian dilemmaHaving to choose between an option that promises short-term gain with foreseeable adverse long-term consequences, and an alternative option with no short-term gain and possibly even short-term suffering, but promising an eventually better …
Compound words 3
- dilemmanadeA notional drink, a positive thing that one makes by making the best of dilemmas one faces.
- dilemmalikeResembling or characteristic of a dilemma.
- dilemmicOf or relating to a dilemma.