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pleonasm::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | verboseness, verbosity |
| Derivation | pleonastic |
Examples of pleonasm
pleonasm
The term pleonasm is most often, however, employed as synonymous with tautology.
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And while chillax may be a pleonasm, it is most definitely a sign of the times.
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In many cases of semantic pleonasm, the status of a word as pleonastic depends on context.
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Semantic pleonasm is more a question of style and usage than grammar.
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Syntactic pleonasm occurs when the grammar of a language makes certain function words optional.
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Yogi Berra's humorous quote above about not making predictions isn't really a pleonasm, but rather an ironicplay on words.
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Tautology and pleonasm are not the same thing.
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Federal foreign policy is a pleonasm.
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Linguists usually call this redundancy to avoid confusion with syntactic pleonasm, a more important phenomenon for theoretical linguistics.
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- Using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child"
- Pleonasm is the use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression: examples are black darkness, burning fire, digital download or redundant pleonasm. Such redundancy is, by traditional rhetorical criteria, a manifestation of tautology. ...
- Redundancy in wording; 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
- The use of a superfluity of words, often deliberately, for emphasis. "I've never seen anything more obscene in all my 80 years on this Earth."
- Unnecessary verbiage, redundancy as in "It was a dark and lightless night."
- A habit of speech or writing in which an idea repeats itself in a single sentence, i.e., a redundancy. For example, "tiny little town" is a pleonasm, as opposed to "tiny town" or "little town. ...
- An expression which, if omitted, would not change the meaning. Its use is usually considered a fault, but is sometimes acceptable for emphasis.
- A compound expression that links an equivocal with an unequivocal term by putting one of them in parentheses after the other -- for example, "income (economic income)" to represent one of the meanings of "income."
- The use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
