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Noun Concept
Categories: Semantics (linguistics), Syntax, Figures of speech, Linguistics, Semantics
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pleonasm
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Using more words than necessary WordNet 3.0
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Using more words than necessary WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Pleonasm is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as "black darkness" or "burning fire". Wikipedia
Redundancy in linguistic expression Wikidata
A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase. Wiktionary
Phrase involving pleonasm. Wiktionary (translation)
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A tiny little child WordNet 3.0
Plenoasms such as 'a tiny little child' Open English WordNet
IS A
verboseness
Rhetorical device
redundancy
DERIVATION
pleonastic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Otto's encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
tumor
tautology
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
tautology
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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pleonasm
Wikipedia
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pleonasm
Wikidata
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pleonasm
Wiktionary
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pleonasm
Wikipedia Redirections
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Pleonasme, pleonastic, Pleonism, semantic pleonasm, syntactic pleonasm

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