What is the meaning of tautological?

adjective

  • 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
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