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.