tautology
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tautology
- (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
- It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
- (countable) An expression that features tautology.
- The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
- (countable, logic) In propositional logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables. In first-order logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
- (linguistics: expression) contradiction in terms
- (in logic) contradiction
- (literary) oxymoron
- French: tautologie
- German: Pleonasmus
- Portuguese: tautologia
- Russian: тавтоло́гия
- Spanish: tautología
- French: tautologie, lapalissade, pléonasme, truisme
- German: Tautologie
- Italian: tautologia
- Portuguese: tautologia
- Spanish: redundancia, pleonasmo, tautología (rhetoric)
- French: tautologie
- German: Tautologie
- Italian: tautologia
- Portuguese: tautologia
- Spanish: tautología
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