PLEONASM

Pleonasm

Pleonasm is the use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression: examples are black darkness, or burning fire. Such redundancy is, by traditional rhetorical criteria, a manifestation of tautology.

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pleonasm

Noun

  1. Redundancy in wording.
  2. A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
    "The two of them are both the same" is a pleonasm (as the word "both" is redundant), as is "killed dead".


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