e.g. "the water was murky and cloudy" or "it was modern and contemporary"
2006-11-29 22:16:04 · 14 answers · asked by liveinlondon100 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
redundancy is the word i think you are looking for.
"it is redundant to use both words"
2006-11-29 22:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Redundant \Re*dun"dant\ (-dant), a. [L. redundans, -antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See Redound.]
1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot.
2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts.
Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.
2006-11-29 22:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Redundant.
2006-11-29 22:22:21 · answer #3 · answered by ilovethomas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Redundant?
2006-11-29 22:17:20 · answer #4 · answered by segonku1975 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "pleonasm" is the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea. E.G "free give-aways", "sweet sugar" etc.
2006-11-29 22:46:51 · answer #5 · answered by cloud43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Tautology' is the word, though I shrink away when I hear a reporter state 'At 9am on the morning of....' when 'am' mean 'the morning / time before noon.'
Or, 'At this moment in time' - when a 'moment' is 'a portion of time,' and thus is a tautology and or where one word is at least redundant.'
There are other instances, but........
Sash.
2006-11-30 13:01:09 · answer #6 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate it when people say "my fellow colleagues". Just makes them look ignorant. Tautology.
2006-11-29 22:24:25 · answer #7 · answered by BushRaider69 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The word is tautology.
2006-11-29 22:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pleonasm. That's a true fact and my free gift to you.
2006-11-29 22:17:38 · answer #9 · answered by jesuspimper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is tautology
2006-11-29 22:19:39 · answer #10 · answered by jnetsta 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋