Pleonasm
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Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of morewords than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with myown eyes.
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A pleonasm is a redundant description. It is describing a word using adjectives that apply to it's inherent characteristics.
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Unusual ghostlike creature who frequents outhouses and continues to repeat the same word.
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the use of more words than those [necessary] to denote [mere] sense : [redundancy]
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