Redundant
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Origin
Classical Latin redundantia superfluity, excess
Definitions
- 1a : the quality or state of being redundant : superfluity
- b : the use of redundant components; also : such components
- c chiefly British : dismissal from a job especially by layoff
- 2: profusion, abundance
- 3a : superfluous repetition : prolixity
- b : an act or instance of needless repetition
- 4: the part of a message that can be eliminated without loss of essential information
Description
- Redundancy (linguistics), the construction of a phrase that presents some idea using more information, often via multiple means, than is necessary for one to be able understand the idea.
- Tautology (rhetoric), an unnecessary or unessential (and sometimes unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing twice (often originally from different languages)
- Pleonasm, the use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression, often redundantly
- Logorrhoea (linguistics), an excessive flow of words more generally
