pleonasm
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pleonasm
- /ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).
noun pleonasms
- Redundancy in wording. St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of 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 oxymoron is a common type of wordplay that, frankly, isn’t all that amusing or challenging to identify, unless of course one stumbles upon oxymora involving the word oxymoron, such as oxymoronic pleonasm or pleonastic oxymoron (a pleonasm is a linguistic redundancy like burning fire).
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Talk about this word "pleonasm." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pleonasm. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pleonasm. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pleonasm "pleonasm." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pleonasm.Cite this
@misc{pleonasm_2026,
title = {pleonasm},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pleonasm},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
