tautology

/tɔːˈtɒlədʒi/

US pronunciation

American sound/tɔːˈtɒlədʒi/

tɔːˈtɒlədʒi

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Aw vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

tɔː - ˈtɒlədʒi -> tautology

Myanmar meaning

ရေးဟန်၊ ညံ့ဖျင်းသဖြင့် စကားလုံးပြောင်း၍ ထပ်ပြောခြင်း။

Full entry

tautology /tↄ:'tɒlǝdʒi/ n

[U, C] ~ (on sth) မလိုအပ်ဘဲ စကား ပရိယာယ်ဖွာခြင်း။ tautological /_'tↄ:tǝ'lɒdʒÇ- kl/, tautologous /tↄ:'tɒlǝgǝs/ adjs v

More examples

‘It is conceivable that the key to truth lies in tautology and redundancy.’
‘Julian concurred that evenings set aside for communication with ‘dead angels’ (I'm sure there's some tautology in there) were right up his street and he couldn't believe he'd missed it.’
‘Redundancy and tautology are undesirable, and a sign of less than careful writing.’
‘But really, spinning out some kind of clever model to illustrate that idea is unnecessary tautology: I can say it in just a few simple words.’
‘The footpath outside the front of our house is flanked on both sides (is that tautology?) with low bushes.’
‘Incidentally, white jasmine is a tautology in the Indian context.’
‘But then, Coward himself was less refined than he thought: ‘The general consensus of opinion, ’ he has Hugo say, two tautologies in a mere five words.’
‘Note the tautology in the first sentence, the feeble attempt at punnery.’
‘I'm not saying he is a sloppy reviewer, because the phrase ‘sloppy reviewer’ is a tautology when it comes to the press.’
‘This coinage has often provoked the accusation that nothing is really being asserted in the argument for natural selection: since fitness can only be defined by survival the phrase is a tautology.’
‘It doesn't affect the validity of the statement, so you can include it without destroying your tautology.’
‘The past, in effect, is a tautology; it is true by virtue of its logical form alone.’
‘Tautologies are statements true by definition and so are quite incapable of empirical refutation or prediction (insofar as a prediction in science must be empirically falsifiable).’
‘Some authors treated the quantity theory as a matter of causal relation and explanation, often differing as to the content and direction of explanation, whereas others saw it as a truism, identity or tautology.’

Synonyms

alliteration, attrition, beating around the bush, broken record, catalogic, chant, chorus, circumambages, circumlocution, copiosity, copiousness, copy, diffuseness, diffusion, discursiveness, duplication, echo, encore, euphemism, excess, expansiveness, fecundity, floridity, garrulity, gassiness, indirect speech, indirectness, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, macrology, officialese, overabundance, paraphrase, periodicity, periphrase, periphrasis, perseveration, pleonasm, practice, profusion, prolixity, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundance, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetition, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, restatement, return, rhetoric, rhythm, rote, roundabout, staccato, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, verbal evasion, verbality, verbiage, verbigeration, verbomania, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness

Antonyms

conciseness, directness, instance, lack, need, original, straightforwardness, terseness, want