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Definition of pleonasm in English: pleonasmnoun ˈpliːə(ʊ)ˌnaz(ə)mˈpliəˌnæzəm mass nounThe use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one's eyes), either as a fault of style or for emphasis. Example sentencesExamples - Apollonius takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.
- The phrase appears to make use of a deliberate rhetorical device known as pleonasm, a crafted redundancy that plays out the search for the most fitting expression.
- And ‘hackneyed cliché’ is itself a pleonasm.
- For all her pleonasm, for all her longwinded babbling, for all her pathetic redundancy, there is still so much that she will never, ever articulate.
- He doesn't say how long ‘lengthy’ is, but as ‘a lengthy sermon’ is a pleonasm, and as he's too good a writer to commit such an atrocity, one suspects pretty long.
- ‘Experimental fiction’ is a pleonasm.
- ‘Obsessive writer’ is a pleonasm if ever there was one.
Synonyms wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, waffling, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing
Derivatives adjective ˌpliːə(ʊ)ˈnastɪkˌpliəˈnæstɪk However, he also sets out to show that such ontologies are not merely pleonastic, but also that an alternative account can be given free of all the difficulties mentioned. Example sentencesExamples - Rather, through his pleonastic use of quietness, Mahler seems here to score a parody of sentimentality.
- Such usages are sometimes described as barbarous and pleonastic, but such criticism does not affect their widespread use.
- But the concept of free action would seem to be pleonastic on the analysis of freedom in terms of the ability to get what one wants.
adverb ˌpliːə(ʊ)ˈnastɪk(ə)liˌpliəˈnæstək(ə)li People who love musicals and enjoy seeing them affectionately kidded, as well as many others, got quite a kick out of the rather pleonastically titled The Musical of Musicals: The Musical! Example sentencesExamples - He writes, albeit pleonastically, that the "maintenance of the upward revaluation of homes may be the next frontier of risk socialization.
- It is, too, often used pleonastically with pronouns, as are, in fact, most Demonstrative Pronouns.
Origin Mid 16th century: via late Latin from Greek pleonasmos, from pleonazein 'be superfluous'. Definition of pleonasm in US English: pleonasmnounˈplēəˌnazəmˈpliəˌnæzəm The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one's eyes), either as a fault of style or for emphasis. Example sentencesExamples - Apollonius takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.
- The phrase appears to make use of a deliberate rhetorical device known as pleonasm, a crafted redundancy that plays out the search for the most fitting expression.
- For all her pleonasm, for all her longwinded babbling, for all her pathetic redundancy, there is still so much that she will never, ever articulate.
- ‘Obsessive writer’ is a pleonasm if ever there was one.
- He doesn't say how long ‘lengthy’ is, but as ‘a lengthy sermon’ is a pleonasm, and as he's too good a writer to commit such an atrocity, one suspects pretty long.
- ‘Experimental fiction’ is a pleonasm.
- And ‘hackneyed cliché’ is itself a pleonasm.
Synonyms wordiness, verboseness, loquacity, garrulity, talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness, babbling, blathering, waffling, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing
Origin Mid 16th century: via late Latin from Greek pleonasmos, from pleonazein ‘be superfluous’. |