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Word: Tautology
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century: via late Latin from Greek, from tautologos ‘repeating what has been said’, from tauto- ‘same’ + -logos (see -logy)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
tɔːˈtɒlədʒi
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g. they arrived one after the other in succession)
Short Definition:saying of same thing twice over in different words
Examples:- there was also a lot of tautology: there's no need to say ‘return back to’
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