Crossword-Solution: TAUTOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tautology | n. | 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. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “TAUTOLOGY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| use of words which merely repeat something already stated | 1 answer |
| Use of words repeating something already implied | 1 answer |
| REPETITION of same word | 1 answer |
| REPETITION of same phase | 1 answer |
| Needless repetition | 1 answer |
| "Short summary" or "free gift," e.g. | 1 answer |
| "Love is love," e.g. | 1 answer |
| "General consensus of opinion," for example. | 1 answer |
| "A rose is a rose is a rose." | 1 answer |
| COMBINING FORMS ROSE | 10 answers |
| damask rose | 11 answers |
| verboseness | 17 answers |
| periphrasis | 17 answers |
| prolixity | 18 answers |
| using euphemisms | 18 answers |
| verbal effusion | 18 answers |
| circumlocution | 18 answers |
| verbosity | 19 answers |
| pleonasm | 19 answers |
| Verbiage | 19 answers |
| wordiness | 20 answers |
| verbalism | 25 answers |
| loquacity | 25 answers |
| windiness | 25 answers |
| diffuseness | 28 answers |
| repetition | 29 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
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Sentences with TAUTOLOGY (5)
The whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer any capital.
Our disease is not, then, absolutely incurable, and the theory of the theologians is worse than inadequate; it is ridiculous, since it is reducible to this tautology: "Man errs, because he errs." While the true statement is this: "Man errs, because he learns." Now, if man arrives at a knowledge of all that he needs to know, it is reasonable to believe that, ceasing to err, he will cease to suffer.
The last words, if they are not mere tautology, imply some temporal jurisdiction.] Their fiercer brethren, the formidable Visigoths, universally adopted the religion of the Romans, with whom they maintained a perpetual intercourse, of war, of friendship, or of conquest.
And then, if you plan it, he Changes organity, With an urbanity, Full of Satanity, Vexes humanity With an inanity Fatal to vanity— Driving your foes to the verge of insanity! Barring tautology, In demonology, 'Lectro-biology, Mystic nosology, Spirit philology, High-class astrology, Such is his knowledge, he Isn't the man to require an apology! Oh! My name is John Wellington Wells, I'm a dealer in magic and spells, In blessings and curses And ever-filled purses, In prophecies, witches, and knells.
Barring tautology, In demonology, ’Lectro biology, Mystic nosology, Spirit philology, High class astrology, Such is his knowledge, he Isn’t the man to require an apology Oh! My name is JOHN WELLINGTON WELLS, I’m a dealer in magic and spells, In blessings and curses, And ever-filled purses— In prophecies, witches, and knells.
Quotes with TAUTOLOGY (3)
Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable and amenable to statistical analysis; and, indeed, what they can afford to study within the means and time available. Science thus emerges as a giant tautology, a "closed system". It can present us with robust answers only because its practitioners take very great care to tailor the questions.
Friendship is a strange idea, difficult to quantify and, at times, even more difficult to maintain. Clearly a friend is someone you enjoy spending time with. However, a friend is also someone you continue to support even during periods when they are considerably less pleasurable to be around. The loyalty of friendship often contains a kind of tautology or feedback loop: the longer you are friends the more loyal you become, and the more loyal you become the longer you remain friends.
In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology: This is rather extraordinary. Orwell did indeed meet Garrett in Liverpool in 1936, and was highly impressed to find that he knew him already through his pseudonymous writing — under the name Matt Lowe — for John Middleton Murry’s Adelphi. As he told his diary: Thus the evidence that supposedly…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).