| ADJECTIVE | all | tautological, pleonastic, redundant, tautologic | repetition of same sense in different words |
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| Meaning | repetition of same sense in different words. | |
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| Example | "the phrase 'a beginner who has just started' is tautological" | |
| Synonyms | pleonastic, redundant, tautologic | |
| Broader | prolix | tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length |
| Spanish | pleonástico, redundante, tautológico | |
| Catalan | pleonàstic, redundant | |
| Nouns | tautology | useless repetition |
| tautology | (logic) a statement that is necessarily true | |
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