double bind

== English == === Etymology === Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson. === Noun === double bind (plural double binds) A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either. === Further reading === “double bind”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “double bind”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “double bind”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. “double bind”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present. “double bind” (US) / “double bind” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.