tautologous

tautologous

Pronunciation: to-‘tä-l&-g&s

Function: adjective

1 : involving or containing rhetorical tautology : REDUNDANT

2 : true by virtue of its logical form alone

– tau·tol·o·gous·ly adverb

Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.

Etymology: Greek tautologos, from taut- + legein to say