tautology
UK: /tɔːtˈɒlədʒi/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
tautology /tɔ:'tɔlədʤi/- danh từ
- (ngôn ngữ học) phép lặp thừa
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun[U, C] a statement in which you say the same thing twice in different words, when this is unnecessary, for example 'They spoke in turn, one after the other.'
tautological
tautologous adjective
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
repetition, redundancy, battology, pleonasm, iteration, tautologism; repetitiousness, repetitiveness, wordiness, prolixity, verbiage, verbosity, long-windedness:
Clichés like 'null and void' and 'cease and desist' are tautologies. Tautology, when called 'repetition', is often used for rhetorical effect.
