tautologously

English

Etymology

tautologous +‎ -ly

Adverb

tautologously (comparative more tautologously, superlative most tautologously)

  1. In a tautologous manner.
    • 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 46:
      Any gene that behaves in such a way as to increase its own survival chances in the gene pool at the expense of its alleles will, by definition, tautologously, tend to survive.
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