Redundant

Origin

Classical Latin redundantia superfluity, excess

• 1602

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