tautology
Plural: tautologies
Noun
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
- "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"
- useless repetition
- "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
- Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
- An expression that features tautology.
- A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
- A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
Examples
- It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
Origin / Etymology
From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ταὐτολογία (tautología) from ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”). By surface analysis, tauto- + -logy.
Antonyms
contradiction, contradiction in terms, oxymoron
Scrabble Score: 13
tautology: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtautology: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tautology: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
tautology: valid Words With Friends Word