What is "pleonasm" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does pleonasm mean in English? Meaning of pleonasm definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "pleonasm" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "pleonasm": using more words than necessary

Noun

  • Meaning: using more words than necessary
  • Example: a tiny little child
  • Synonyms: pleonasm
  • Hypernyms: verboseness verbosity
  • Synonyms:

    diffusion, rhetoric, redundancy, garrulity, copiousness, verbosity, circumlocution, diffuseness, verboseness, verbiage, loquacity, prolixity, repetition, logorrhea, tautology, windiness, long-windedness, loquaciousness, redundance, wordage,

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    pleonasm in English: pleonasm
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