pleonasm
Meanings
Plural: pleonasms
Noun
- using more words than necessary
- Redundancy in wording.
- A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).
Scrabble Score: 12
pleonasm is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpleonasm is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pleonasm is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
pleonasm is a valid Words With Friends word