Tautology

[tɔː'tɒlədʒɪ] or [tɔ'tɑlədʒi]

Definition

(noun.) useless repetition; 'to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology'.

(noun.) (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; 'the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology'.

Typist: Sean--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Edited by Jason

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Repetition (of the same idea in different words), redundancy, iteration, reiteration, pleonasm, verbosity, diffuseness, redundant expression.

Checked by Alma

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Verbosity, redundancy, needless, repetition, pleonasm, reiteration

ANT:Conciseness, brevity, laconism, compression

Checker: Marie

Definition

n. needless repetition of the same thing in different words.—adjs. Tautolog′ic -al containing tautology.—adv. Tautolog′ically.—v.i. Tautol′ogise to use tautology: to repeat the same thing in different words.—ns. Tautol′ogism; Tautol′ogist.—adjs. Tautol′ogous tautological; Tautophon′ical.—n. Tautoph′ony repetition of the same sound.

Checker: Virgil