"tautological" in the adjective sense
1. pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological
repetition of same sense in different words
"`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"
"the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"
"at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
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