meaning of tautology

1. A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.
2. tautology A proposition which is always true. Compare: paradox. The Linguistic Smarandache Tautologies, http://www. gallup. unm. edu/~smarandache/tautolog. txt.
3. useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough is a ">tautology"

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