Word Meanings - PLEONASM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLEONASM)

• Superfluity
• Redundance
• needlessness
• supererogation
• pleonasm
• excess
• Tautology
• Verbosity
• redundancy
• needless
• repetition
• reiteration

Related words: (words related to PLEONASM)

• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
  Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
• PLEONASM
  Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• REPETITION
  The act of repeating, singing, (more info) 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• TAUTOLOGY
  A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast,
• REITERATION
  The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
• REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY
  Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant
• SUPEREROGATION
  The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires. Works of supererogation , those good deeds believed to have been performed by saints, or capable of being performed by men, over and above what is required for their
• SELF-REPETITION
  Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.