Definition as Adjective

• repetition of same sense in different words

• pleonastic, redundant, tautologic

• "`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

• Tautological vs pleonastic
• Tautological vs redundant
• Tautological vs tautologic