tautologous

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And it has, in the course of that educational process, occurred to me that it does border on tautologous.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

As he argued, the term "comic novel" should be acknowledged as tautologous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

If this is so, then talk of the comic novel is tautologous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010

The author repeats himself, achieving a sort of tautologous stammer: "What would prove to be decisive in her decision," or the "hearing would not be heard for at least another hour."

From Time Magazine Archive

A verbal proposition is necessarily true, because it is tautologous; a contradiction in terms is necessarily false, because it is inconsistent.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth