Usually means: Repetitive, unnecessary reiteration of words.
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  1. battology: Collins English Dictionary
  2. battology: Wordnik
  3. battology: Wiktionary
  4. Battology, battology: Dictionary.com
  5. battology: Online Etymology Dictionary
  6. Battology: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. battology: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. battology: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  9. Battology: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. battology: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. battology: FreeDictionary.org
  12. battology: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. battology: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. battology: Infoplease Dictionary

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  1. battology: Legal dictionary

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  1. battology: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (battology)

▸ noun:  Continual unnecessary reiteration of the same words, phrases, or ideas.

Similar:
bivoltinism, tautonym, biologese, biotremology, repeatome, bugdom, biocycle, biopersistance, tremology, voltinism, more...

Opposite:
tachyphrasia, fluency, eloquence

Types:
tautology, pleonasm, redundancy, repetition, more...
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Similar:
bivoltinism, tautonym, biologese, biotremology, repeatome, bugdom, biocycle, biopersistance, tremology, voltinism, more...

Opposite:
tachyphrasia, fluency, eloquence

Types:
tautology, pleonasm, redundancy, repetition, more...



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