tautology

The word “tautology” has 4 syllables: tau-to-lo-gy

It's pronounced as /tɔːˈtɒlədʒi/

What is synonym and antonym for tautology?

In the thesaurus, “tautology” has 94 synonyms and 16 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for tautology along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for tautology

alliteration
attrition
beating around the bush
broken record
catalogic
chant
chorus
circuitousness
circularity
circumambages
circumlocution
copiosity
copiousness
copy
diffuseness
diffusion
digressiveness
discursiveness
echo
embellishment
embroidering
encore
euphemism
exaggeration
excess
expansiveness
fecundity
floridity
garrulity
garrulousness
gassiness
hyperbole
indirectness
ingemination
iteracy
iterance
iteration
litany
logorrhea
long-windedness
loquaciousness
loquacity
macrology
officialese
overabundance
overstatement
paraphrase
periodicity
periphrase
periphrasis
perseveration
pleonasm
practice
profusion
prolixity
reappearance
recapitulation
recital
recurrence
redundance
redundancy
rehearsal
reiteration
relation
renewal
reoccurrence
repeat
repetition
repetitiousness
repetitiveness
replication
report
reproduction
restatement
return
rhetoric
rhythm
rote
roundabout
staccato
superabundance
supererogation
superfluity
verbal evasion
verbalism
verbality
verbiage
verbigeration
verbomania
verboseness
verbosity
windiness
wordage
wordiness

Antonyms for tautology

brevity
briefness
compactness
conciseness
concision
crispness
directness
instance
lack
need
original
pithiness
straightforwardness
succinctness
terseness
want

Meanings of tautology

noun
1. Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
2. An expression that features tautology.
3. In propositional logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables. In first-order logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.

Example Sentences

The phrase "free gift" is an example of a tautology, as gifts are always free.
In logic, a tautology is a statement that is always true by definition.
His argument was dismissed as a tautology, because it didn't offer any new insights.
The writer’s use of tautology made the explanation unnecessarily repetitive.
A good writer should avoid using tautology to keep their arguments clear and concise.

On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to tautology, such as: alliteration, attrition, beating around the bush, brevity, briefness, broken record, catalogic.

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