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Tautology
Definitions
1 | noun | (logic) a statement that is necessarily true 2 | noun | useless repetition
Hyphenation
tau-tol-o-gy (9 letters | 4 syllables)
First known use in English
1579 (Elizabethan era | European Renaissance) (447 years ago)
Word origins
Latin | Modern Greek
Word frequency history
Inflected form
tautologies
Broader terms
true statement | truth | repetitiousness | repetitiveness (total: 4)
Lexically close words
aetiology | anthology | astrology | audiology | histology | neurology | pathology | radiology | scatology | tautologous | teleology (total: 11)
Anagrams
(none among common words)
Translations
Spanish: | tautología (linguistics) French: | tautologie (linguistics) Portuguese: | tautologia (linguistics) German: | Tautologie (linguistics) Japanese: | 同語反復 (common noun) | 同語反覆 (common noun)
Other notable uses
tautology.net
Crossword puzzle clues
(none)
Scrabble score
13 (International English) | 13 (North American English)