pleonasm

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

redundancy

tautology

redundance

repetition

superfluity

verbiage

Translations

pléonasme

pleonasmo

pleonasmo

Pleonasmus

πλεονασμός

pleonasmo

pleonasme

pleonasme

haşiv

kelime fazlalığı

laf kalabalığı

şisirme

gereğinden fala sözcük kullanma

überflüssige Häufung sinngleicher Ausdrücke

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/

Etymology

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