pleonasm

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.Examples: "St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm."; "Indeed, pleonasm, the use of superfluous or redundant words, is only part of the broader features of that style, the expressions of which have been so thoroughly analyzed by Franz Neirynck² and which for convenience will here be referred to as "dualisms.""; "My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration."rhetoricuncountable

2. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.countable