tautology
(noun) useless repetition; “to say that something is ‘adequate enough’ is a tautology”
tautology
(noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; “the statement ‘he is brave or he is not brave’ is a tautology”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tautology (countable and uncountable, plural tautologies)
(uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
(countable) An expression that features tautology.
(countable, 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.
• (linguistics: expression): contradiction in terms
• (in logic): contradiction
• (literary): oxymoron
• (in logic): contingency, contradiction
Source: Wiktionary
Tau*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [L. tautologia, Gr. tautologie.] (Rhet.)
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– Repetition.
– Tautology, Repetition. There may be frequent repetitions (as in legal instruments) which are warranted either by necessity or convenience; but tautology is always a fault, being a sameness of expression which adds nothing to the sense or the sound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2024
(verb) include or contain; have as a component; “A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”; “The record contains many old songs from the 1930’s”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
