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" (98 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Adjective(1 words)
bad reasoning
Noun(1 words)
circular reasoning
Strong matches (29)
Related words (49)
Noun(8 words)
pleonasmredundancyreiterationtautological truthtruth of formunanimous consensusvalid statementverbal redundancy
Adjective(2 words)
propositional tautologyuniversal truth
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
9 entriesclaimlinguistic devicepropositionrepetitiousnessrepetitivenessrhetorical devicestatementtrue statementtruth
More specific
7 entrieslexical redundancypleonasmpropositional tautologyredundancy in languagetautological propositiontruth functional tautologyverbal redundancy
Collocations
5 entrieslogical tautologyredundant tautologytautological propositiontautology in logictautology in rhetoric
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
6 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 20 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- tautologia noun (in logic)
Czech
1 entries- tautologie noun (in logic)
Danish
1 entries- tautologi noun (in logic)
Dutch
1 entries- tautologie noun (in logic)
Finnish
1 entries- tautologia noun (in logic)
French
1 entries- tautologie noun (in logic)
German
1 entries- Tautologie noun (in logic)
Greek
1 entries- ταυτολογία noun (in logic)
Hungarian
1 entries- tautológia noun (in logic)
Icelandic
1 entries- sísanna noun (in logic)
Italian
1 entries- tautologia noun (in logic)
Japanese
2 entries- トートロジー noun (in logic)
- 恒真式 noun (in logic)
Macedonian
1 entries- тавтологија noun (in logic)
Polish
1 entries- tautologia noun (in logic)
Portuguese
1 entries- tautologia noun (in logic)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- tautologija noun (in logic)
Slovak
1 entries- tautológia noun (in logic)
Spanish
1 entries- tautología noun (in logic)
Swedish
1 entries- tautologi noun (in logic)
Ukrainian
1 entries- 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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Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.