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pleonasm | undefined |

As a noun pleonasm

is (uncountable|rhetoric) redundancy in wording.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

pleonasm

English

(wikipedia pleonasm)

Noun

  • (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
  • * 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford ,
    • My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.
  • * Dec 14, 2007 , Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics ,
    • 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?
  • (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.
    • "The two of them are both the same" is a pleonasm (as the word "both" is redundant), as is "killed dead".

    Related terms

    * pleonastic

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    Anagrams

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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined