Tautology
21tautology — unnecessary repetition of a word or statement …
22tautology — Synonyms and related words: abundance, amplitude, battology, bedizenment, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion,… …
23tautology — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. repetition, reiteration, redundance, verbosity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. redundancy, pleonasm, reiteration; see repetition . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. repetition, redundance, redundancy,… …
24tautology — tau|tol|o|gy [to:ˈtɔlədʒi US to:ˈta: ] n plural tautologies [U and C] technical [Date: 1500 1600; : Late Latin; Origin: tautologia, from Greek, from tautologos repeating things , from tauto same + legein to say ] a statement in which you say the… …
25tautology — tau|tol|o|gy [ tɔ talədʒi ] noun count or uncount LINGUISTICS a statement, sentence, etc. in which the meaning is repeated in an unnecessary way …
26tautology — , redundancy, pleonasm, solecism. Although various authorities describe various shades of distinction between the first three words, those distinctions are generally slight and frequently contradictory. Essentially all three mean using more… …
27tautology — tau·tol·o·gy || tÉ” tÉ‘lÉ™dʒɪ / tÉ’l n. needless repetition of same idea in different words …
28tautology — Redundancy; needless repetition of the same meaning in what are merely different words. (pr. taw tah le jee) …
29tautology — [tɔ: tɒlədʒi] noun (plural tautologies) 1》 the unnecessary repetition within a statement of the same thing in different words. 2》 Logic a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form. Derivatives tautological adjective… …
30tautology — n. Repetition (of the same idea in different words), redundancy, iteration, reiteration, pleonasm …
