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Redundancy in linguistic expression
Pleonasm (/ˈpliː.əˌnæzəm/; from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός pleonasmós, from πλέον pléon 'to be in excess') is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as
Pleonasm
Process by which people are asked to respond to an invitation
the phrase "please RSVP" is used, which is a case of RAS syndrome (a pleonasm), as "s'il vous plaît" means "please". "RSVP" is no longer widely used
RSVP
In literary criticism, repeating an idea
the same thing twice". Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. Like pleonasm, tautology is often considered a fault
Tautology_(language)
Acronym redundantly coupled with its word(s)
they are common in speech. The degree to which there is a need to avoid pleonasms such as redundant acronyms depends on one's balance point of prescriptivism
RAS_syndrome
Literary technique used to persuade
book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) "Pleonasm - Definition and Examples of Pleonasm". Literary Devices. 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2020-03-30
Literary_device
Field of knowledge
proof is either correct or erroneous, and a "rigorous proof" is simply a pleonasm. Where a special concept of rigor comes into play is in the socialized
Mathematics
2013 book by Mark Forsyth
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. The book explains classical
The_Elements_of_Eloquence
Cathedral in Riga, Latvia
for its weathercock. The church is commonly called the Dome Cathedral, a pleonasm as the word 'Dome' comes from the German Dom meaning 'cathedral'. The church
Riga_Cathedral
River in England
probably means simply "water" or slow flowing river. Thus the name is a pleonasm. The lower reaches of the Great Ouse are also known as "Old West River"
River_Great_Ouse
Language spoken in Indonesia
singular into the plural form, because it is not necessary and considered a pleonasm (in Indonesian often called pemborosan kata). Personal pronouns are not
Indonesian_language
Grammar of the Afrikaans language
kabeltou (cable rope): kabel = tou; brokstuk (fragment): brok = stuk. A pleonasm is the repetition of the same concept in a phrase using different words
Afrikaans_grammar
Topics referred to by the same term
Tautology (rule of inference), a rule of replacement for logical expressions Pleonasm Redundancy (disambiguation) Tautological (disambiguation) Tautonym, a scientific
Tautology
fixed-price meal. In America "à la carte menu" can be found, an oxymoron and a pleonasm. à propos regarding/concerning (the correct French is à propos de) affaire
Glossary of French words and expressions in English
Glossary_of_French_words_and_expressions_in_English
Word or phrase used to impress
culture Newspeak – Fictional language in the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Psychobabble – Form of speech or
Buzzword
Rhetorical style using a minimum of essential words
sprezzatura and elliptic style. It contrasts with periphrasis, aureation and pleonasm. Blacketer (2006). The School of God: Pedagogy and Rhetoric in Calvin's
Brevitas
Valley in the French Pyrénées
originates in 'vallatum' (Latin for 'small valley'), making 'Barétous valley' a pleonasm, as 'Barétous' on its own is sufficient. Paul Raymond also noted that in
Barétous_Valley
Excessive use of words
descriptions of redirect targets Obfuscation – Purposefully unclear communication Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Purple prose – Overly ornate and
Verbosity
Type of lawsuit
and equity courts. "Class action lawsuit" and "class action suit" are pleonasms used by laypersons unfamiliar with the critical distinction between the
Class_action
Concept in relational database design
most basic definition, "a key is a unique identifier", so unique key is a pleonasm. Keys that are within their originating entity are unique within that entity
Unique_key
Thermodynamic property
thermal non-equilibrium, so the term 'heat flow' is a redundancy (i.e. a pleonasm). Heat must not be confused with stored thermal energy, and moving a hot
Rate_of_heat_flow
Name list
paired with Hirsch, the German and Yiddish word for "deer", in a bilingual pleonasm. Notable people with this name include: Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012), Israeli
Zvi
Cognitive functions linked to specific neural systems
Some authors argue that adding the prefix “neuro-” to cognitive is a pleonasm and therefore prefer the simpler term in clinical contexts. Psychology
Neurocognition
Irreversible binomial in legalese jargon
law following the decline of the Roman Empire. These phrases are often pleonasms and form irreversible binomials. In other cases the two components have
Legal_doublet
Rhetorical figure
[clarification needed] Antanaclasis Cognate object Hendiadys Legal doublet Merism Pleonasm (the use of more words than necessary to express an idea) Polyptoton (a
Figura_etymologica
Fictional universe involving Mickey Mouse and related Disney characters
in 1995. Brick Boulder (original Italian name "Rock Sassi", which is a pleonasm as "sassi" means "rocks") is a plainclothes police officer who usually
Mickey_Mouse_universe
Variety of English language
"January first" or "the first of January".) Tautologies like redundancy and pleonasm are common despite the emphasis on avoiding them, stressing brevity and
Philippine_English
Obvious and comical truism
day, it is night. "In a Cottage in Fife", a Mother Goose nursery rhyme Pleonasm Captain Obvious for uses of the term in media Georges Lebouc, 2500 noms
Lapalissade
proof is either correct or erroneous, and a "rigorous proof" is simply a pleonasm. Where a special concept of rigor comes into play is in the socialized
Philosophy_of_mathematics
American television channel
"The National Network" (later promoted as "The New TNN"—an inadvertent pleonasm in its full context), signifying a transition to a general entertainment
Paramount_Network
Toponyms composed of synonyms
cave. List of reduplicated place names Bilingual tautological expressions Pleonasm RAS syndrome "Amu Darya River". WorldAtlas. WorldAtlas. 7 March 2023. Retrieved
List of tautological place names
List_of_tautological_place_names
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1587–1632), King of Sweden (1592–1599)
rebellion. Józef Szujski notes that the literature became "infested with pleonasms, pasquinades and moral sermon". Consequently, regional councils imposed
Sigismund_III_Vasa
Writing principle of using few words
Cognitive process Minimalism – Movement in various forms of art and design Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Garner, Bryan A. (2009). Garner on
Concision
Model for generating observable data in probability and statistics
consistently distinguished. (The term "discriminative classifier" becomes a pleonasm when "discrimination" is equivalent to "classification".) The term "generative
Generative_model
Jewish given name
Aryeh-Leib (אריה־לייב) or Aryeh Loeb is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet, literally 'lion-lion', traceable back to the Hebrew word אריה arye
Aryeh_Leib
US cable television network
the channel began to promote itself as "The New TNN" (an inadvertent pleonasm in its full context), and added off-network sitcoms and dramas such as
TNN_(American_TV_channel)
Russian author
«recognized the desire to live into this fenced-off distance». redundancy, pleonasm. «Voschev... opened the door to space», «his body was thin inside the clothes»
Andrei_Platonov
Type of uncertainty of meaning where several interpretations are possible
contested concept Fallacy Formal fallacy Golden hammer Informal fallacy Pleonasm Semantics Uncertainty Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
Ambiguity
Sphere floating on a very thin film of water on a fountain basin
A kugel fountain (also called a floating sphere fountain or by the pleonasmic name kugel ball) is a water feature or sculpture where a sphere sits in a
Kugel_fountain
Information that is expressed more than once
Markedness – State of standing out as unusual Oxymoron – Figure of speech Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Purple prose – Overly ornate and
Redundancy_(linguistics)
Prescriptive rules of grammar and usage
words with disputed usage Wikipedia:List of commonly misused English words Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Rectification of Names – Confucian
Linguistic_prescription
Species having the same Genus and species name
it is allowed for both parts of the name of a species to mean the same (pleonasm), without being identical in spelling. For instance, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Tautonym
Clause of the US Constitution specifying natural born US citizenship to run for President
the current phrase "native-born citizen" is well understood; but it is pleonasm and should be discarded; and the correct designation, "native citizen"
Natural-born-citizen clause (United States)
Natural-born-citizen_clause_(United_States)
Lexeme (word or sign) that consists of more than one stem
Occasionally, two synonymous nouns can form a compound noun, resulting in a pleonasm. One example is the English word pathway. In Arabic, there are two distinct
Compound_(linguistics)
Technology used in telecommunications networks
to stuff a stuffable bit", though technically correct, do sound like a pleonasm. Similar techniques are used to combine four × 8 Mbit/s together, plus
Plesiochronous digital hierarchy
Plesiochronous_digital_hierarchy
Grammatical construction such as 'not nothing'
Jespersen's cycle List of common English usage misconceptions Litotes Negation Pleonasm Redundancy (linguistics) Wouden, Ton van der (November 2002). Negative
Double_negative
Hill in London, England
and Petersham TW10. The last two syllables (mond, hill) are an unlinked pleonasm (tautology). Mond and large hill are cognate. The origin is as a description
Richmond_Hill,_London
1883 narrative poem by Mihai Eminescu
Eminescu used Hyperión. Artistic license also surfaces in the apparent pleonasm, with which Cătălina beckons Hyperion: Cobori în jos, luceafăr blând ("Descend
Luceafărul_(poem)
needed] Antanaclasis Figura etymologica Hendiadys Legal doublet Merism Pleonasm (the use of more words than necessary to express an idea) Polyptoton (a
Cognate_object
Political doctrine conceived by Luigi Sturzo
Democratic Party: called themselves démocrate populaires in spite of the slight pleonasm of the term in order to underline, on one hand, their determined adherence
Popolarismo
environment at large spatial scales. macrology Verbose, meaningless talk; pleonasm. macrometeorology The study of large-scale behavior of the atmosphere.
List of words with the suffix -ology
List_of_words_with_the_suffix_-ology
Feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages
expressions such as more perfect, most unique, and most parallel as illogical pleonasms: after all, if something is unique, it is one of a kind, so nothing can
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Degrees_of_comparison_of_adjectives_and_adverbs
English affixes added before a word
periphrase photo- light photoelectric, photography, photosynthesis pleo- more pleonasm, pleroma pod- foot podiatrist, podium poly- many polygon, polyhedron, polygamy
English_prefix
1946 essay by George Orwell
discussion of literary reform Doublespeak Award Orwell Awards Plain English Pleonasm The Elements of Style Verbosity "Politics and the English Language | The
Politics and the English Language
Politics_and_the_English_Language
Islamic clerical family in Saudi Arabia
History of Saudi Arabia Using the term the Al ash-Sheikh family is a pleonasm as the word Al already means family. See #Etymology. It would, in theory
Al_ash-Sheikh
Phonemics - Phrase - Phrase structure rules - Pidgin - Place of articulation - Pleonasm - Pluperfect - Polysemy - Polysynthetic language - Portmanteau - Possessive
Index_of_linguistics_articles
1878 play by Ion Luca Caragiale
verb a compătimi ("to commiserate"), which seeps into her speech as a pleonasm: [ei] compătimesc împreună ("[they] commiserate with each other")—one of
A_Stormy_Night
Name list
Zev Wolf or Ze'ev Wolf (Yiddish: זאב־וואָלף) is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet. "Ze'ev" (Hebrew: זאב, romanized: zeév) means "wolf", and "Wolf"
Zev_Wolf
Annual series of lectures on natural theology
Informatics 2012–13 Bruno Latour "Once Out of Nature" - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and
Gifford_Lectures
true judgment through enthymemes, hence to give proof of a statement. Pleonasm – the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. Polyptoton –
Glossary_of_rhetorical_terms
Use of synonyms to avoid repetition
Horror aequi Antonomasia, the use of an epithet to name a person Kenning Pleonasm Purple prose Sobriquet Fowler, Henry W. And Fowler F. G. The King's English
Elegant_variation
Process of compacting a lexicon while retaining semantics
unmeaningful words or redundant meaningful words (especially to avoid pleonasms). In the vector space model, compacting a lexicon leads to a reduction
Semantic_compression
Russian writer (1922–2006)
members of the party, members of informal communities. Zinoviev used pleonasms, puns, slang and obscene vocabulary, introduced neologisms: scientific
Alexander_Zinoviev
infelix" and "confidens de fide perfidi"), in addition to polysyndetons and pleonasms. Formulas from royal charters can be found scattered throughout the thirty
Minorite_Chronicle_of_Buda
2005 studio album by Ephel Duath
places they are". "New Disorder" – 5:01 "Vector (Third Movement)" – 4:15 "Pleonasm" – 2:31 "Few Stars, No Refrain And A Cigarette" – 3:43 "Crystalline Whirl"
Pain_Necessary_to_Know
French fine-art photographer (born 1977)
de photographie de Lectoure, [fr], Lectoure, France 2014 "(Phosphene)", Pleonasm, Brussels, Belgium. 2013 "Ressources poétiques", Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse
Yohann_Gozard
American architect (born 1964)
Modernism" (with Robert Somol), Perspecta 33 (2002): 72–77 "Oxymoron and Pleonasm Conversation on American Critical by Monika Mitasova (Editor)", 2014, ISBN 9781940291413
Sarah_Whiting
Phenomenon where clitic pronouns appear together with the noun phrases that they refer to
clitic doubling can be used for emphasis, is often viewed as a colloquial pleonasm, and is considered "incorrect" by some prescriptive grammarians. Example:
Clitic_doubling
Binary star in the Pleiades star cluster
"full"—a lexeme with many English derivatives like pleiotropy, pleomorphism, pleonasm, pleonexia, plethora and Pliocene. This meaning also coincides with the
Pleione_(star)
Hungarian chronicle
usage of such figures of speech (rhetoric) like anaphora, epistrophe, pleonasm, synezeugmenon and antonomasia. The "crown" as the main allegory for the
Urgesta
Spanish philosopher and lawyer
that is, that such a State has no hereditary ruler. Peña has coined the pleonasm «republican republicanism» (or its alternative wording «public republicanism»)
Lorenzo_Peña
1886 art manifesto by Jean Moréas
themselves alternating with periods of undulating lapses, significant pleonasms, mysterious ellipses, outstanding anacoluthia, any audacious and multiform
Symbolist_Manifesto
Mountain in Germany
"Geophysikalisches Observatorium Collm". Retrieved 2015-10-28. The name is a pleonasm, since both parts mean approximately the same: German Berg - "Mountain
Collmberg
Name list
Hirsh Tsvi, and hyphenated forms) (Yiddish: צבי־הירש) is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet, literally "deer-deer", traceable back to the Hebrew
Tsvi-Hirsh
Rocky peninsula on the Vilaine estuary in Brittany, France
heath" in Breton. Thus, referring to it as "the point of Pen Lan" is a pleonasm. The earliest signs of settlement in the Billiers area—two dolmens—date
Pen_Lan_Point
translation" but there are diction errors such as "distracting alliteration," pleonasm, lexical level clichés of verse translation, and obscurity not present
Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry
Sunflower_Splendor:_Three_Thousand_Years_of_Chinese_Poetry
liaisons, and ... intrusive consonants ...), together with malapropisms, pleonasms and other standard sources of verbal comedy." "[L]iterary parody, mock-heroic
Gilles_(stock_character)
PLEONASM
PLEONASM
PLEONASM
PLEONASM
Boy/Male
Gaelic Greek Irish Scottish
Young fighter.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Wish
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Case.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ciosáin, which Woulfe describes as a variant of Ó Casáin, with the same meaning as Ó CaisÃn (see Cashion).Americanized spelling of German Kirchmann (see Kirchman).
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Loveable
Girl/Female
Greek Latin
Mother of Paris and Hector.
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
The quiet one
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
God of the Vedas
Boy/Male
Indian, Modern
Friendship
Girl/Female
British, English
Bright Fame
Male
Arthurian
, a monster fish-cat.
PLEONASM
PLEONASM
PLEONASM
PLEONASM
PLEONASM
a.
Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.
n.
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.
n.
One who is addicted to pleonasm.