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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : taw-tol-uh-jee |
Phonetic Transcription : tɔˈtɒl ə dʒi |
Definition of tautology
Origin :- 1570s, from Late Latin tautologia "representation of the same thing," from Greek tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to say" (see lecture (n.)).
- As in repetition : noun duplication; doing again
- As in verbiage : noun repetition, wordiness
- As in redundancy : noun verbosity
- As in wordiness : noun verbosity
- As in redundancy : noun repetition
- As in wordiness : noun excessive in language
- As in circumlocution : noun indirect speech
- As in pleonasm : noun wordiness
- As in prolixity : noun wordiness
- As in verboseness : noun wordiness
- So with them it would be tautology to say Kimbundu language.
- Extract from : « Stanley in Africa » by James P. Boyd
- Let this excuse what may, at times, appear to be a repetition or a tautology.
- Extract from : « Beadle's Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen » by anonymous
- The milk pails were on the fence twice, Lady Blue, that is tautology.
- Extract from : « Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline » by Jennie M. Drinkwater
- Tautology is to be avoided by all who make any pretence to grammar.
- Extract from : « New Word-Analysis » by William Swinton
- If he had laboured with no other defect, had he the gift of tautology?
- Extract from : « The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 » by Thomas de Quincey
- And somebody says, 'Yes, that is tautology, that is saying the same thing twice over in different language.'
- Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
- Wraxall panegyrizes him, and yet with a tautology of terms, which must have been the very reverse of Dunning's style.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 » by Various
- He doth likewise the same thing, is a tautology characteristic of the writer: il fet meismes ceste chose, F.
- Extract from : « Selections from Early Middle English 1130-1250: Part II: Notes » by Various
- There is certainly a great deal of verbiage and tautology about them.
- Extract from : « Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers » by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
- Suppose that, instead of aiming at a seeming refutation, the Sophist tries to convict the respondent of Tautology.
- Extract from : « Aristotle » by George Grote
Synonyms for tautology
- alliteration
- attrition
- beating around the bush
- broken record
- catalogic
- chant
- chorus
- circumambages
- circumlocution
- copiosity
- copiousness
- copy
- diffuseness
- diffusion
- discursiveness
- echo
- encore
- euphemism
- excess
- expansiveness
- fecundity
- floridity
- garrulity
- gassiness
- indirectness
- ingemination
- iteracy
- iterance
- iteration
- litany
- logorrhea
- long-windedness
- loquaciousness
- loquacity
- macrology
- officialese
- overabundance
- paraphrase
- periodicity
- periphrase
- periphrasis
- perseveration
- pleonasm
- practice
- profusion
- prolixity
- reappearance
- recapitulation
- recital
- recurrence
- redundance
- redundancy
- rehearsal
- reiteration
- relation
- renewal
- reoccurrence
- repeat
- repetition
- repetitiousness
- replication
- report
- reproduction
- restatement
- return
- rhetoric
- rhythm
- rote
- roundabout
- staccato
- superabundance
- supererogation
- superfluity
- tautology
- verbal evasion
- verbality
- verbiage
- verbigeration
- verbomania
- verboseness
- verbosity
- windiness
- wordage
- wordiness
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