different between tedium vs tautology

English

Alternative forms

• taedium
• tædium (dated)

Etymology

Latin taedium, from taed?re (“to weary”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ti?.di.?m/
• Rhymes: -i?di?m

Noun

tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)

1. Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 8

     Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 192]:

     Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.

Synonyms

• boredom, drudgery, ennui, tediousness

Related terms

• taedium vitae
• tedious

Translations

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