PLEONASM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Using more words than necessary

Example:

a tiny little child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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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