An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PLEONASM
pleonasm
(noun) using more words than necessary; “a tiny little child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pleonasm (countable and uncountable, plural pleonasms)
(uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
(countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
Coordinate terms
• ellipsis
Anagrams
• neoplasm, planemos
Source: Wiktionary
Ple"o*nasm, ( n. Etym: [L. pleonasmus, Gr. Full, a., and cf. Poly-, Plus.] (Rhet.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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