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Tautology Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ology

Tautology has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(logic) a statement that is necessarily true

"the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"

2

useless repetition

"to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"

3

Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.

See Also
propositional variable tautologize tautologous tautologia propositional logic truth value tautological first order logic
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
truth repetitiveness
Rhyming Words
dogy fogy bogy logy pogy ology loogy elogy boogy alogy agogy dilogy oölogy oology eulogy perogy urology geology analogy trilogy
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