pleonasm

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (rhetoric, uncountable) Redundancy in wording.
2. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

Concepten

pleonasme

Synoniemen

redundancy

tautology

redundance

repetition

superfluity

verbiage

Vertalingen

pléonasme

pleonasmo

Pleonasmus

pleonasmo

πλεονασμός

pleonasmo

pleonasme

haşiv

pleonasmos

superfetazione

Pléonasme

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/

Etymologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).