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Summary

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tautology:
- Wiktionary:
  tautology → tautologie, lapalissade, pléonasme, truisme
  tautology → tautologie
- Synonyms for "tautology":
  truth; true statement
  repetitiveness; repetitiousness

English

Detailed Translations for tautology from English to French

tautology:

Synonyms for "tautology":

truth; true statement
repetitiveness; repetitiousness

Related Definitions for "tautology":

useless repetition¹
- to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology¹
(logic) a statement that is necessarily true¹
- the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology¹

Wiktionary Translations for tautology:

tautology

noun

uncountable: redundant use of words
- tautology → tautologie
expression that features tautology
- tautology → tautologie; lapalissade; pléonasme; truisme
in logic
- tautology → tautologie

tautology

noun

redondance de mots
- tautologie → tautology
expression qui présente une tautologie
- tautologie → tautology

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• tautology	→ tautologie	↔ Tautologie — Rhetorik: Wiederholung gleichbedeutender Wörter derselben Wortart, zum Beispiel schon bereits, immer und ewig, Gangsterbande im Gegensatz zum Pleonasmus mit gleichbedeutenden Wörtern verschiedener Wortart

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