Tautology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
  • n. An instance of such repetition.
  • n. Logic 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. redundant use of words
  • n. An expression that features tautology.
  • n. A statement that is true for all values of its variables
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Repetition of the same word, or use of several words conveying the same idea, in the same immediate context. See dilogy.
  • n. 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.”
  • n. Synonyms Redundancy, etc. See pleonasm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
  • n. useless repetition
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