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Noun Concept
Categories: Semantics, Rhetoric, Sentences by type, Semantics (linguistics), Propositions
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tautology
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Useless and pointless repetition Open English WordNet
In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". Wikipedia
Unnecessary repetition, or more words than necessary, to say the same thing. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Redundant statements in literature and rhetoric Wikipedia Disambiguation
Statement which repeats the same idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words, or phrases Wikidata
A statement with unnecessary repetition of meaning, using different words Wikidata
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To say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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