tautology
noun/tɔˈtɒləd͡ʒi/UK/toːˈtɔləd͡ʒi/
Etymology
From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ταὐτολογία (tautología) from ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”). By surface analysis, tauto- + -logy.
- derived from tautologia
Definitions
Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
- It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
An expression that features tautology.
- The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
- Pure mathematics consists of tautologies, analogous to ‘men are men’, but usually more complicated.
A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
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A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
The neighborhood
- antonymcontradiction in termsantonym(s) of
- antonymcontradictionantonym(s) of “in logic”
- antonymoxymoronantonym(s) of “literary”
- neighborpleonasm
- neighborredundancy
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tautology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA