the use of more words than are necessary to express a meaning. For example, “see with your eyes” is a pleonasm because the same meaning can be expressed using “see.”
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NAmE//ˌpliəˈnæstɪk//
adjectiveSee pleonasm in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: pleonasm