repetition of same sense in different words; "`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 Synonym(s):pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: