pleonasm

  1. Noun.  (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
  2. Noun.  (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

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