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Tautological

adjective
1.
Repetition of same sense in different words.  Synonyms: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic.  "The phrase 'a beginner who has just started' is tautological" , "At the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"





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"Tautological" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, it will bind me down to double every eifort in the future progress of the work. The following are a few remarks on the songs in the list you sent me. I never copy what I write to you, so I may be often tautological, or ...
— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns


Words linked to "Tautological" :   prolix, tautology


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