Pleonasm

Meaning

Noun

●

In Rhetoric:

Redundancy in wording.

●

A

; a

one or more

which are

because their

is

elsewhere in the

.

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Origin

pleonasm

English

pleonasmus

Latin

πλεονασμός

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

πλεονάζω

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

πλείων

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

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Related

Glittering Generality

Dangling Modifier

Descriptive Adjective

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