She caught sight of the tautology that she was looking for in a crowd of other, equally useless and potentially dangerous, tautologies.
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Tautology
//tɔˈtɑl.ə.d͡ʒi//
Synonyms for "tautology" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
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Related words (42)
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1 entriesTranslations
80 translations across 28 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- повторение noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
Catalan
2 entries- tautologia noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologia noun (in logic)
Chinese
4 entries- 套套逻辑 noun (expression that features tautology)
- 套套邏輯 /套套逻辑 noun (expression that features tautology)
- 废话 noun (expression that features tautology)
- 廢話 /废话 noun (expression that features tautology)
Czech
1 entries- tautologie noun (in logic)
Danish
3 entries- tautologi noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologi noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologi noun (in logic)
Dutch
2 entries- tautologie noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologie noun (in logic)
Finnish
3 entries- tautologia noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologia noun (in logic)
- toisto noun (expression that features tautology)
French
4 entries- lapalissade noun (expression that features tautology)
- pléonasme noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologie noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologie noun (expression that features tautology)
Galician
1 entries- tautoloxía noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
German
3 entries- Pleonasmus noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- Tautologie noun (expression that features tautology)
- Tautologie noun (in logic)
Greek
4 entries- πλεονασμός noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- ταυτολογία noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- ταυτολογία noun (expression that features tautology)
- ταυτολογία noun (in logic)
Hungarian
2 entries- tautológia noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautológia noun (in logic)
Icelandic
1 entries- sísanna noun (in logic)
Italian
2 entries- tautologia noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologia noun (in logic)
Japanese
4 entries- トートロジー noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- トートロジー noun (expression that features tautology)
- トートロジー noun (in logic)
- 同語反復 noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
Macedonian
2 entries- тавтологија noun (expression that features tautology)
- тавтологија noun (in logic)
Occitan
1 entries- tautologia noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
Polish
4 entries- masło maślane noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- pleonazm noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologia noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologia noun (in logic)
Portuguese
4 entries- pleonasmo noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- pleonasmo noun (expression that features tautology)
- redundância noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- redundância noun (expression that features tautology)
Romanian
4 entries- pleonasm noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- pleonasm noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologie noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologie noun (expression that features tautology)
Russian
1 entries- тавтоло́гия noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ath-bhriathrachas noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- redundancija noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologija noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologija noun (in logic)
- zalihost noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
Slovak
1 entries- tautológia noun (in logic)
Spanish
4 entries- pleonasmo noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- pleonasmo noun (expression that features tautology)
- redundancia noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- redundancia noun (expression that features tautology)
Swedish
3 entries- tautologi noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- tautologi noun (expression that features tautology)
- tautologi noun (in logic)
Tagalog
1 entries- pagpapaliguy-ligoy noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
Ukrainian
3 entries- тавтоло́гія noun (uncountable: redundant use of words)
- тавтоло́гія noun (expression that features tautology)
- тавтоло́гія noun (in logic)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Listen up! The first rule of the Tautology Club is the first rule of the Tautology Club.
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Tom tautologically said that tautological tautology is tautological.
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Isn't this a tautology?
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