Synonymy vs Tautology - What's the difference?
synonymy | tautology |
(semantics) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
The study of synonyms.
A system of synonyms.
(botany) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to a particular taxon, except the correct name)
(botany) The state of not being a correct name, of being a synonym
(zoology) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)
(uncountable) redundant use of words
(countable) An expression that features tautology.
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy :
(countable, logic) A statement that is true for all values of its variables
As nouns the difference between synonymy and tautology
is that synonymy is (semantics) the quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning while tautology is (uncountable) redundant use of words.synonymy
English
(Synonym)Noun
(synonymies)- In 1924 this name was reduced to synonymy .
Antonyms
* antonymySee also
* synonymia * synonymtautology
English
Noun
- It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
- ''The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
- Pure mathematics consists of tautologies , analogous to ‘men are men’, but usually more complicated.
- Given a Boolean A, "A OR (NOT A)" is a tautology .
- A logical statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction is a contingency.
- A tautology''' can be verified by constructing a truth tree for its negation: if all of the leaf nodes of such truth tree end in X's, then the original (pre-negated) formula is a '''tautology .