pleonasm
noun/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”).
- derived from πλεονασμός
- learned borrowing from pleonasmus
Definitions
Redundancy in wording.
- St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.
- My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.
A phrase involving pleonasm
A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
The neighborhood
- neighborcircumlocution
- neighborpleonastic
- neighborauxesis
- neighborbattology
- neighborperissology
- neighbortautology
- neighborEnglish pleonastic compounds
- neighborPleonastic compounds by language
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pleonasm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA