Pleonasm vs Circumlocution - What's the difference?
pleonasm | circumlocution |
(uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
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(countable) A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
A roundabout expression. See also euphemism
As nouns the difference between pleonasm and circumlocution
is that pleonasm is redundancy in wording while circumlocution is a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.pleonasm
English
(wikipedia pleonasm)Noun
- My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.
- pleonasm is the additional and extra use of added, spare, unnecessary, redundant (superfluous or surplus), unneeded, and uncalled-for words in addition to, and on top of, what is necessary or essential. Or required. Or obligatory or vital or requisite or crucial. Or needed?
- "The two of them are both the same" is a pleonasm (as the word "both" is redundant), as is "killed dead".
