tautology
noun
1 tautology
logic A statement that is necessarily true.
Roget 13:
identity,
sameness;
coincidence,
coalescence;
convertibility;
equality
etc.
27;
selfness†,
self,
oneself;
identification.
monotony,
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104.
facsimile
etc.
(copy)
21;
homoousia: alter ego
etc.
(similar)
17;
ipsissima verba [Lat.]
etc.
(exactness)
494;
same;
self,
very,
one and the same;
very thing,
actual thing;
real McCoy;
no other;
one and only;
in the flesh.
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Roget 104:
repetition,
iteration,
reiteration,
harping,
recurrence,
succession,
run;
battology,
tautology;
monotony,
tautophony;
rhythm
etc.
138;
diffuseness,
pleonasm,
redundancy.
chimes,
repetend,
echo,
ritornello†,
burden of a song,
refrain;
rehearsal;
rechauffe [Fr.],
rifacimento [It],
recapitulation.
cuckoo
etc.
(imitation)
19;
reverberation
etc.
408;
drumming
etc.
(roll)
407;
renewal
etc.
(restoration)
660.
twice-told tale;
old story,
old song;
second edition,
new edition;
reappearance,
reproduction,
recursion [Comp.];
periodicity
etc.
138.
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Roget 573:
diffuseness
etc.
adj.;
amplification
etc.
v.;
dilating
etc.
v.;
verbosity,
verbiage,
cloud of words,
copia verborum [Lat.];
flow of words
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
looseness.
Polylogy†,
tautology,
battology†,
perissology†;
pleonasm,
exuberance,
redundancy;
thrice-told tale;
prolixity;
circumlocution,
ambages†;
periphrase†,
periphrasis;
roundabout phrases;
episode;
expletive;
pennya-lining;
richness
etc.
577.
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Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
lumber,
odds and ends,
cast-off clothes;
button top;
shoddy;
rags,
orts†,
trash,
refuse,
sweepings,
scourings,
offscourings†,
waste,
rubble,
debris,
detritus;
stubble,
leavings;
broken meat;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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2 tautology
Moby thesaurus: abundance, amplitude, battology, bedizenment, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, exuberance, fat, featherbedding, fecundity, fertility, filling, fluency, formlessness, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, gush, gushing, iteration, logorrhea, long-windedness, luxury, macrology, needlessness, ornamentation, outpour, overadornment, overflow, overlap, padding, palilogy, payroll padding, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, rampancy, rankness, redundance, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition, repetition for effect, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, roundabout, stammering, stuttering, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, superflux, talkativeness, tautologism, teemingness, tirade, unnecessariness, verbality, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness ... show more.
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