pleonasm
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[edit] Etymology
Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmos), from πλεονάζω (pleonazō), “‘I am superfluous’”), from πλείων (pleiōn), “‘more’”).
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- IPA: /'pli:ənæzəm/
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pleonasm (countable and uncountable; plural pleonasms)
- (uncountable) (rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford,
- My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford,
- (countable) 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.
- "They are both the same" is a pleonasm as the word "both" is redundant, as is "killed dead".
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redundancy in wording
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phrase involving pleonasm
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