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Meaning of pleonasm

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

pleonasm

Pronunciation:/ˈpliː.ə.næz.əm/

noun

Definitions

  1. Redundancy in wording.

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

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleonasm

Related words

pleonasttautologycircumlocutionperiphrasisreticenceagnominationperiphraseperissology