All catch-22 synonyms

noun catch-22

• no-win situation — choice between negative outcomes
• contradiction — If you describe an aspect of a situation as a contradiction, you mean that it is completely different from other aspects, and so makes the situation confused or difficult to understand.
• dilemma — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
• paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.