Pleonast vs Pleonasm - What's the difference?
pleonast | pleonasm |
(rare) One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing.
(uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
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* Dec 14, 2007 , Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics ,
(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.
As nouns the difference between pleonast and pleonasm
is that pleonast is (rare) one who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing while pleonasm is (uncountable|rhetoric) redundancy in wording.pleonast
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(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".