Pleonasm is the use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression: examples are black darkness, tuna fish, or burning fire. Such redundancy is, by traditional rhetorical criteria, a manifestation of tautology. The term pleonasm comes from a Greek word that means "I am redundant."
Pleonasm is the use of an excessive number of words to say something, including unnecessary repetition, especially when this is done through ignorance rather than for effect:
Could you repeat that again? (Again is unnecessary)
Your future prediction is null and void
The sound of the music is loud.
It's a puppy-dog, not a kitten-cat!
Examples:
pair of twins *
past experience
past history
past tradition *
PC Computer
perfectly legitimate
persistent obsession
personal friend
personal friendship
personal individual
PIN number (Private Identification Number number)
pizza pie
plane flying aloft in the air above *
play actor
please RSVP
P.M. in the evening
poisonous venoms
polar opposites
positive yes
postponed until later
potentially capable *
pre planning
present incumbent
previously listed above
pruned out
quite unique
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