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date: '2025-01-06'
description: or redundancy in linguistic expression.
id: Pleonasm
modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:28 GMT-04:00
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The use of more [[thoughts/Language|words]] than are necessary to _convey_ meaning, either as a fault of style or for emphasis.

Can sometime served as rhetorical repetition.