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tautology | stereotype |

As a noun tautology

is (uncountable) redundant use of words.

As a verb stereotype is

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tautology

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) redundant use of words
    • It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
  • (countable) An expression that features tautology.
    • ''The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
  • * 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy :
    • Pure mathematics consists of tautologies , analogous to ‘men are men’, but usually more complicated.
  • (countable, logic) A statement that is true for all values of its variables
    • 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 .

    Antonyms

    * contradiction in terms * (in logic) contradiction * (literary) oxymoron

    Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) contingency, contradiction

    Derived terms

    * tautological * tautologically * tautologise * tautologist * tautologous * tautologously

    See also

    * pleonasm * redundancy * (Tautology) English words suffixed with -ology

    stereotype

    English

    (wikipedia stereotype)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
  • (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
  • (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
  • (UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language

    • Verb

    (stereotyp)
  • To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
  • To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
    • to stereotype the Bible
  • To print from a stereotype.
  • (figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
  • * Duke of Argyll (1887)
    • Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.

    See also

    * stereotypic * stereotypical ----