A black darkness is an example of a pleonasm.
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Pleonasm
//ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm//
Synonyms for "pleonasm" (43 found)
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Related words (21)
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4 entriesTranslations
68 translations across 34 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πλεονασμός noun (redundancy in wording)
Arabic
2 entries- إِطْنَاب noun (redundancy in wording)
- حَشْو noun (redundancy in wording)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pleonazm noun (redundancy in wording)
Belarusian
1 entries- плеана́зм noun (redundancy in wording)
Catalan
1 entries- pleonasme noun (redundancy in wording)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 冗詞 /冗词 noun (redundancy in wording)
- 冗詞 /冗词 noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
- 冗語 /冗语 noun (redundancy in wording)
- 冗語 /冗语 noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Czech
1 entries- pleonasmus noun (redundancy in wording)
Danish
3 entries- dobbeltkonfekt noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
- pleonasme noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonasme noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Dutch
2 entries- pleonasme noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonasme noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Esperanto
2 entries- pleonasmo noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonasmo noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Finnish
2 entries- pleonasmi noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonasmi noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
French
2 entries- pléonasme noun (redundancy in wording)
- pléonasme noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
German
1 entries- Pleonasmus noun (redundancy in wording)
Greek
2 entries- πλεονασμός noun (redundancy in wording)
- πλεονασμός noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Hungarian
4 entries- pleonazmus noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonazmus noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
- szinonimahalmozás noun (redundancy in wording)
- szinonimahalmozás noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Ido
1 entries- pleonasmo noun (redundancy in wording)
Indonesian
2 entries- pemborosan kata noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonasme noun (redundancy in wording)
Irish
1 entries- iomarcaíocht focal noun (redundancy in wording)
Italian
1 entries- pleonasmo noun (redundancy in wording)
Japanese
1 entries- 冗語 noun (redundancy in wording)
Kazakh
1 entries- плеоназм noun (redundancy in wording)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- плеоназм noun (redundancy in wording)
Latin
2 entries- pleonasmos noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonasmus noun (redundancy in wording)
Polish
2 entries- pleonazm noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonazm noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Portuguese
1 entries- pleonasmo noun (redundancy in wording)
Romanian
1 entries- pleonasm noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Russian
1 entries- плеона́зм noun (redundancy in wording)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pleonazam noun (redundancy in wording)
- плеоназам noun (redundancy in wording)
Spanish
1 entries- pleonasmo noun (redundancy in wording)
Swedish
2 entries- pleonasm noun (redundancy in wording)
- pleonasm noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Tagalog
1 entries- panigib noun (redundancy in wording)
Turkish
4 entries- doldurma noun (redundancy in wording)
- doldurma noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
- haşiv noun (redundancy in wording)
- haşiv noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Ukrainian
2 entries- плеона́зм noun (redundancy in wording)
- плеона́зм noun (phrase involving pleonasm)
Welsh
1 entries- gair llanw noun (redundancy in wording)
Sample sentences
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Nothing is gained in strength nor precision by this kind of pleonasm.
Source: tatoeba (11592942)
St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.
Source: wiktionary
Indeed, pleonasm, the use of superfluous or redundant words, is only part of the broader features of that style, the expressions of which have been so thoroughly analyzed by Franz Neirynck² and which for convenience will here be referred to as "dualisms."
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