noun

the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g. they arrived one after the other in succession ). "there was also a lot of tautology: there's no need to say ‘return back to’" синонимы: repetition, repetitiveness, repetitiousness, reiteration, redundancy, superfluity, periphrasis, iteration, duplication, wordiness, long-windedness, prolixity, verbiage, verbosity, pleonasm, perissology