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pleonasm.

Redundancy in wording.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/
  1. Redundancy in wording.

    rhetoric · uncountable
  2. A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

    countable
Where this word comes from

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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