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PLEONASM
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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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