Tautology

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
  • noun. An instance of such repetition.
  • noun. An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Repetition of the same word, or use of several words conveying the same idea, in the same immediate context. See dilogy.
  • noun. The repetition of the same thing in different words; the useless repetition of the same idea or meaning: as, “they did it successively one after the other”; “both simultaneously made their appearance at one and the same time.”
  • noun. Synonyms Redundancy, etc. See pleonasm.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. redundant use of words
  • noun. An expression that features tautology.
  • noun. A statement that is true for all values of its variables
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
  • noun. useless repetition
    • Word Usage
    "This is the logical notion of tautology, which is very different from the way the term tautology is used in stylistics"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    contradiction  contradiction in terms  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    repetitiousness  repetitiveness  true statement  truth  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aukwardness  bargainer  collocation  crybaby  diffuseness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abundance  amplitude  battology  bedizenment  circumambages  
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