Definition of Tautologous

1. a. Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.

Definition of Tautologous

1. Adjective. Pertaining to a tautology; tautological. ¹

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Definition of Tautologous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautologous

tautog
tautogram
tautograms
tautogs
tautologia
tautologic
tautological
tautologically
tautologies
tautologist
tautologists
tautologize
tautologized
tautologizes
tautologizing
tautologous (current term)
tautologously
tautology
tautomer
tautomeric
tautomeric fibres
tautomerism
tautomerisms
tautomerization
tautomerizations
tautomerize
tautomerized
tautomerizes
tautomerizing

Literary usage of Tautologous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1849)
"... and put the fame matter in a new form, the tautologous only repeat the ... Whether in thinking or in teaching, the tautologous judgments are ..."

2. Vocabulary of Philosophy: Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical, with by William Fleming, Henry Calderwood (1890)
"... They have further been classified as Analytic, Synthetic, and Identical, or tautologous (qv) (see ..."

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