Associations to the word «Tautology»

Wiktionary

TAUTOLOGY, noun. (uncountable) Redundant use of words.
TAUTOLOGY, noun. (countable) An expression that features tautology.
TAUTOLOGY, noun. (countable) (logic) A statement that is true for all values of its variables.

Dictionary definition

TAUTOLOGY, noun. (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology".
TAUTOLOGY, noun. Useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats