Synonyms & related words for pleonasm

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Words related to pleonasm

Explore words related to pleonasm — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include pleonast, pleonastic, tautology, tautologist, pleonastically, tautologize, tautologously, tautologous. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does pleonasm come from?

The word pleonasm breaks down into 2 roots of Greek origin: pleon, from Greek pleon (“more, excess”); and -asm, from Greek asmos (“forming nouns of action/state”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.