A-Z: General definitions
- T.S. Eliot
- Tabernacle
- Tablets of the Law
- Taboo
- Tale
- Talisman
- Talmud
- Tantalus
- Tarquinius Superbus
- Tartarus
- Tautology
- Tax-collector
- Te Deum
- Teachers of the law
- Technical lexis
- Teiresias
- Telemachus
- Temperament
- Temperance
- Templar
- Temple
- Temple of Vesta
- Tempo Rubato
- Temporal
- Tempt
- Temptation
- Tempter
- Ten Commandments
- Tense
- Tent of Meeting
- Tercet
- Terence
- Tertullian
- Terza Rima
A-Z: General definitions: Tautology
Definition
Using a different form of words to say the same thing that has just been said; conveying the same meaning in different ways. In logic, it conveys the sense that the argument has just been repeated rather than advanced. See periphrasis.
A roundabout way of saying something.
