different between antonym vs tautology

English

Etymology

circa 1870: ant- +? -onym

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?nt??n?m'
• IPA^(key): /?ænt??n?m/

Noun

antonym (plural antonyms)

1. (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.

   Synonym: opposite

   Antonym: synonym

   1. A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary:Semantic relations

Further reading

• antonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Adjective

antonym

1. antonymous

Inflection

Noun

antonym n (singular definite antonymet, plural indefinite antonymer)

1. antonym

Declension

Related terms

• antonymi

References

• “antonym” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek antonymia, from ???? (antí, “against”) + ????? (ónuma)

Noun

antonym n (definite singular antonymet, indefinite plural antonym or antonymer, definite plural antonyma or antonymene)

1. antonym

Antonyms

• synonym

References

• “antonym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek antonymia, from ???? (antí, “against”) + ????? (ónuma)

Noun

antonym n (definite singular antonymet, indefinite plural antonym, definite plural antonyma)

1. antonym

Antonyms

• synonym

References

• “antonym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Adjective

antonym (comparative mer antonym, superlative mest antonym)

1. antonymous

Declension

Noun

antonym c

1. antonym

Declension

References

• antonym in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• anonymt

English

Etymology

From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (tautología) from ?????? (tautós, “the same”) + ????? (lógos, “explanation”), analyzed as tauto- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??t?l.?.d??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??t?l.?.d??i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

tautology (countable and uncountable, plural tautologies)

1. (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.

   It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".

2. (countable) An expression that features tautology.

   The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
3. (countable, logic, propositional logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
4. (countable, logic, first-order logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.

Antonyms

• (linguistics: expression): contradiction in terms
• (in logic): contradiction
• (literary): oxymoron

Coordinate terms

• (in logic): contingency, contradiction

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• pleonasm
• redundancy
• Tautology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia