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tau·tol·o·gy (tô-t

-j

)
n. pl. tau·tol·o·gies

1. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. An instance of such repetition.
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.

[Late Latin tautologia, from Greek tautologi, from tautologos, redundant : tauto-, tauto- + logos, saying; see -logy.]

tauto·logi·cal (tôt

-k

l) or tauto·logic (-

k) adj.
tauto·logi·cal·ly adv.

tautological

adj : repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant [syn: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic]

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