pleonasm in English
noun
1
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.
The phrase appears to make use of a deliberate rhetorical device known as pleonasm , a crafted redundancy that plays out the search for the most fitting expression.
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1. tAutology noun repetition, redundancy, verbiage, iteration, verbosity, repetitiveness, prolixity, repetitiousness, pleonasm The tAutology and circularity of this argument were swept aside