Antipattern (glossary)
(1) An antipattern is just like a pattern except that instead of a solution it gives something that looks superficially like a solution but isn’t one. (Koenig 1995)
(2) Pattern of failure. (SEI 2012)
Sources
(1) Koenig, A. (March/April 1995). "Patterns and Antipatterns". Journal of Object-Oriented Programming 8, (1): 46–48.
(2) SEI 2012. Patterns of Failure: System Archetypes. Available at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/acquisition/research/pofsa.cfm.
Discussion
A full discussion of Antipatterns and how they relate to systems thinking can be found in Patterns of Systems Thinking