Associations to the word «Pleonasm»
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Wiktionary
PLEONASM, noun. (uncountable) (rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
PLEONASM, noun. (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.
Dictionary definition
PLEONASM, noun. Using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.