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Pleonasm

Pleonasm (/ˈpliː.əˌnæzəm/; from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός pleonasmós, from πλέον pléon 'to be in excess') is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as "black darkness", "burning fire", or "the man he said". It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional rhetorical criteria. Pleonasm may also be used for emphasis, or because the phrase has become…

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Pleonasm

Nodes86
Edges85
Triples20
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023256
Components1

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Pleonasm

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related to Semantic pleonasm · 5
Pleonasm → It, Linguists, One, Overlap, Semantic
related to External links · 3
Pleonasm → The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Syntactic pleonasm · 3
Pleonasm → English, For, Syntactic
related to Usage · 2
Pleonasm → It, Most
is a · 1
Pleonasm → question more of style and usage than of grammar
related to Types · 1
Pleonasm → There

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word also pleonastic meaning english may use hebrew phrase two syntactic words one language literally used tautological redundancy many examples

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Pleonasmis aquestion more of style and usage than of grammar0.90text
It might be possible or perhaps it's possibleinstance ofEnglish speakers often use potentially pleonastic expressions0.80text
where both termsinstance ofEnglish speakers often use potentially pleonastic expressions0.80text
Englishinstance ofto play a game.In a satellite-framed language0.80text
verb phrases containing particles that denote direction of motion are so frequent that even when such a particle is pleonasticinstance ofto play a game.In a satellite-framed language0.80text
it seems natural to include itinstance ofto play a game.In a satellite-framed language0.80text
Pleonasmrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Pleonasmrelated to External linksThe0.60section
Pleonasmrelated to External linksWiktionary0.60section
Pleonasmrelated to Semantic pleonasmSemantic0.60section
Pleonasmrelated to Semantic pleonasmLinguists0.60section
Pleonasmrelated to Semantic pleonasmIt0.60section

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