Synonyms for tautologies
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : taw-tol-uh-jee |
| Phonetic Transcription : tɔˈtɒl ə dʒi |
Top 10 synonyms for tautologies Other synonyms for the word tautologies
- beating around the bush
- broken record
- catalogic
- circumambages
- circumlocution
- copiosity
- copiousness
- copy
- diffuseness
- diffusion
- discursiveness
- echo
- encore
- euphemism
- excess
- expansiveness
- fecundity
- floridity
- garrulity
- gassiness
- indirectness
- ingemination
- iteracy
- iterance
- iteration
- logorrhea
- long-windedness
- loquaciousness
- loquacity
- macrology
- officialese
- overabundance
- paraphrase
- periodicity
- periphrase
- periphrasis
- perseveration
- pleonasm
- practice
- profusion
- prolixity
- reappearance
- recapitulation
- recital
- redundance
- redundancy
- rehearsal
- relation
- renewal
- reoccurrence
- repetitiousness
- replication
- report
- reproduction
- restatement
- return
- rhetoric
- rote
- roundabout
- staccato
- superabundance
- supererogation
- superfluity
- tautology
- verbal evasion
- verbality
- verbiage
- verbigeration
- verbomania
- verboseness
- verbosity
- windiness
- wordage
- wordiness
Définition of tautologies
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
- The fixed, impregnable, socalled apodictical facts are nothing but tautologies, if seen at close range.
- Extract from : « The Positive Outcome of Philosophy » by Joseph Dietzgen
- Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it could create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
- Extract from : « The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method » by Henri Poincar
- Sir William Temple's stile, tho easy and flowing, is too diffuse: Every page of his abounds with tautologies.
- Extract from : « Dissertation on the English Language » by Noah Webster, Jr.
Antonyms for tautologies
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