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Pleonasm

//ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Redundancy in wording. rhetoric, uncountable

    "St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm."

  2. 2
    using more words than necessary wordnet
  3. 3
    A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase. countable

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).

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