pleonasm

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Redundancy in wording.
2. noun A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

Similar words

pleonast tautology circumlocution periphrasis reticence agnomination periphrase perissology synathroesmus palilogy

Often followed by

of is and in or to

Word family

pleonasms pleonastic pleonastically