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▸ noun: (idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
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▸ noun: (idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
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dormitive principle,
hypotyposis,
tautology,
mesodiplosis,
addubitation,
ploce,
patientive,
paralogics,
polyptoton,
tropist,
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