Usually means: Choice among three difficult options.
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  1. trilemma: Merriam-Webster
  2. trilemma: Collins English Dictionary
  3. trilemma: Wordnik
  4. trilemma: Wiktionary
  5. trilemma: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Trilemma, trilemma: Dictionary.com
  7. Trilemma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Trilemma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. trilemma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Trilemma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. trilemma: FreeDictionary.org
  12. trilemma: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. trilemma: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trilemma: A Word A Day

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  1. trilemma: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (trilemma)

noun:  A circumstance in which a choice must be made between three options that seem equally undesirable.
noun:  A situation in which a choice must be made among three desirable options, only two of which are possible at the same time.
noun:  (logic) An argument containing three alternatives, jointly exhaustive either under any condition(s) or under all condition(s) consistent with the universe of discourse of that argument, that each imply the same conclusion.

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