PLEONASTIC

• (adj.) repetition of same sense in different words

  "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions", "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological", "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"

  synonyms : redundant , tautologic , tautological

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