Crossword-Solution: PLEONASM 8 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Pleonasm n. Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of
more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my
own eyes.

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PLEONASM anagram NEOPLASM, PSALMONE

We have 25 clues for the answer “PLEONASM”

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Use of more words than necessary 1 answer
The use of more words than is necessary to express meaning 1 answer
Redundancy: Grammar. 1 answer
Redundancy, from the Greek 1 answer
"The very identical thing itself." 1 answer
using more words than necessary 2 answers
Scurrility. 6 answers
verboseness 17 answers
periphrasis 17 answers
circumlocution 18 answers
verbal effusion 18 answers
using euphemisms 18 answers
prolixity 18 answers
tautology 19 answers
Verbiage 19 answers
verbosity 19 answers
wordiness 20 answers
verbalism 25 answers
loquacity 25 answers
windiness 25 answers
diffuseness 28 answers
expletive 34 answers
redundancy 36 answers
output 38 answers
roundabout 40 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLEONASM (5)

This consideration will remove the supposed pleonasm in the Saxon phrase, which is here literally translated.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unknown 1996
Look out for “la main de fer sous le gant de velours,” (which I printed in English the other day without quotation-marks, thinking whether any _scarabæus criticus_ would add this to his globe and roll in glory with it into the newspapers,—which he didn’t do it, in the charming pleonasm of the London language, and therefore I claim the sole merit of exposing the same.) A good many powerful and dangerous people have had a decided dash of dandyism about them.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 2013
Look out for "la main de fer sous le gant de velours," (which I printed in English the other day without quotation-marks, thinking whether any scarabaeus criticus would add this to his globe and roll in glory with it into the newspapers, --which he didn't do it, in the charming pleonasm of the London language, and therefore I claim the sole merit of exposing the same.) A good many powerful and dangerous people have had a decided dash of dandyism about them.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004
What subtlety for a child! "Le corbeau, honteux et confus" (The crow, ashamed and confused).--A nothing pleonasm, and there is no excuse for it this time.
Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2004
His object was, under the fiction of an independent multitude, to smuggle in a virtual unity; for his court physicians are no plural body in effect and virtue, but a mere pleonasm and a tautology.
Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 Thomas de Quincey 2004

Quotes with PLEONASM (2)

It was truer to my father to let the songs he'd sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I'd heard one?
Dimitri Verhulst De helaasheid der dingen
It’s not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
Anthony Marais
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1947–2018).