pleonase ( synonym found)

Definition of pleonase:

°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 two of them are both the same" is a pleonasm (as the word "both" is redundant), as is "killed dead".

Definition of pleonase:

°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 two of them are both the same" is a pleonasm (as the word "both" is redundant), as is "killed dead".

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