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tautology

/tɔˈtɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
noun
  1. Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.

    "It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning"."

  2. An expression that features tautology.

  3. 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.

Antonymscontradiction, contradiction in terms, oxymoron

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