Word of the Day – Pleonasm

Pleonasm (noun)

plee-o-naz-m

The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one’s eyes), either as a fault of style or for emphasis.

Mid 16th century: via late Latin from Greek pleonasmos, from pleonazein ‘be superfluous’.

Example sentences

“For all her pleonasm, for all her longwinded babbling, there’s much I still don’t know”