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tautology n. 同义反复,重复 同义反复,重复 tautology重言 tautology同义反复 tautology n 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" Tautology \ Tau* tol" o* gy\, n. [ L. tautologia, Gr. ?: cf. F. tautologie.] ( Rhet.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Repetition. Usage: { Tautology}, { Repetition}. There may be frequent repetitions ( as in legal instruments) which are warranted either by necessity or convenience; but tautology is always a fault, being a sameness of expression which adds nothing to the sense or the sound. [ 1913 Webster] 83 Moby Thesaurus words for " tautology": 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
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