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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) (446 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)

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