tautologist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who makes tautologies.
Example Sentences
- "His is the pseudo-movement, where the doubling simply mimics the routine of a tautologist, of a monologist, and of a Hegelian dialectician."
- "Nature isn't such a tautologist as to make another to follow him."
- "When his action is mechanically good he produces a great effect on an uncritical assembly, but he is a tiresome tautologist to the intellectual."
- "Do you think that God is a tautologist? Let us have faith! Let us say something positive. Irony of itself is the beginning of baseness."
- "Oh, that damn'd tautologist too!"
Etymology
Etymology tree English tautology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English tautologist From tautology + -ist.