pleonasmo — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
pleonasmo is used for these senses in English:
- pleonasm (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
pleonasm — full definition
- noun The use of more words than are needed to express an idea.
- noun A phrase that includes extra words whose meaning is already given elsewhere in it.
tautology — full definition
- noun The needless repetition of an idea in different words, such as "free gift" or "a new innovation".
- noun In logic, a statement that is true in every possible case because of its structure alone, such as "either it will rain or it will not rain".
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