tautology
noun
[ tɔːˈtɒlədʒi ]
• the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g. they arrived one after the other in succession ).
Similar:
repetition,
repetitiveness,
repetitiousness,
reiteration,
redundancy,
superfluity,
periphrasis,
iteration,
duplication,
wordiness,
long-windedness,
prolixity,
verbiage,
verbosity,
pleonasm,
perissology,
Origin:
mid 16th century: via late Latin from Greek, from tautologos ‘repeating what has been said’, from tauto- ‘same’ + -logos (see -logy).
