0 the use of more words than are needed to express a meaning, done either unintentionally or for emphasis; an example of this:
Properly speaking, “in his own thinking” is a pleonasm; every man must think for himself, no one can think for another.
"Man-made money" is a pleonasm that I wish he would not use, because it suggests that money can be something other than man-made.
There are several instances of pleonasm, truism, poor syntax, and mixed metaphor.
The speech might also be considered an example of pleonasm, "the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense".
Observe that the antiphrasis 'popular democracy' is made more cruel by the use of pleonasm.
The title is almost a pleonasm: the watchful guardian, the careful caregiver.
They tend to be more like the prose either because they are closely modelled on it or because of the absence from them of pleonasm.
Draftsmen, though wrongly accused sometimes of pleonasm and excess of verbiage, do not normally waste a subsection for an unnecessary purpose.
