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What is the noun for tautology?

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tautology
  1. (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
  2. (countable) An expression that features tautology.
  3. (logic) In propositional logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables. In first-order logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “This outcome has become a banal tautology repeated in every pharmaceutical marketing article.”
      “Redundancy and tautology are undesirable, and a sign of less than careful writing.”
      “It doesn't affect the validity of the statement, so you can include it without destroying your tautology.”
tautologism
tautologist
  1. One who makes tautologies.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Do you think that God is a tautologist? Let us have faith! Let us say something positive. Irony of itself is the beginning of baseness.”
      “When his action is mechanically good he produces a great effect on an uncritical assembly, but he is a tiresome tautologist to the intellectual.”
      “His is the pseudo-movement, where the doubling simply mimics the routine of a tautologist, of a monologist, and of a Hegelian dialectician.”
tautologia
  1. (rhetoric) Tautology.
tautologisms
  1. plural of tautologism
tautologists
  1. plural of tautologist
tautologies
  1. plural of tautology
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His assertion that tautologies were the only secure predictions anticipates similar views of social scientists in recent decades.”
      “These arguments illustrate the ideological tautologies of what is being demanded.”
      “Transcending the nugacity end of the continuum, we would enter into the area of necessarily, analytically, logically, notationally, demonstratively, absolutely-true propositions or tautologies.”
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