how to pronounce tautology

/tɔːˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/

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tautology is pronounced in four syllables

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meanings of tautology

noun:

Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
[[File:Wikipedia-logo.png|44px|none|link=|alt=]] English Wikipedia has an article on: Tautology (logic)Wikipedia (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.
An expression that features tautology.

tautology frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word tautology occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics tautology can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that tautology can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) education, science, and technology;