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PLEONASM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pleonasm mean?
• PLEONASM (noun)
The noun PLEONASM has 1 sense:
1. using more words than necessary
Familiarity information: PLEONASM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Using more words than necessary
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
a tiny little child
Hypernyms ("pleonasm" is a kind of...):
verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)
Derivation:
pleonastic (repetition of same sense in different words)
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