pleonasm
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Noun — The use of more words than are needed to express an idea.
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Etymology
A learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).
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