pleonasm

Meaning

Noun

  • Redundancy in wording.
  • A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

Origin

  • , from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός, from πλεονάζω, from πλείων.

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