PLEONASMとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/

名詞

pleonasm (countable and uncountable, plural pleonasms)

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
   • 1939, John Nicholas Hritzu, The Style of the Letters of St. Jerome, Catholic University of America Press, page 5:

     St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.

   • 1989, Harold Riley, The Making of Mark: An Exploration, Mercer University Press, page 219:

     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 Neirynck and which for convenience will here be referred to as "dualisms."

   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:

     My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.

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.
   • 2015 May 15, Adam Lewis, “As a grammarian contrarian, I love opposites. But what about alternyms?”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 23 February 2016:

     The oxymoron is a common type of wordplay that, frankly, isn’t all that amusing or challenging to identify, unless of course one stumbles upon oxymora involving the word oxymoron, such as oxymoronic pleonasm or pleonastic oxymoron (a pleonasm is a linguistic redundancy like burning fire).

   • 2017 February 10, Jamie Fahey, “Sub standard procedures: a Guardian guide to subediting”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 1 April 2018:

     Tautologies and pleonasms gobble up space.

   • 2019 April 29, Gary Nunn, “Don't ditch the adverb, the emoji of writing”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 23 July 2019:

     Note he won’t shout loudly – that’s known as a pleonasm, when more words than necessary are used. It’s the chief criticism of the adverb: stripping interesting verbs like “shout” of their punch. The tautology can come across as immature.

等位語

• ellipsis

派生語

• pleonasmic

関連する語

• circumlocution
• pleonastic

参考

• auxesis
• battology
• perissology
• tautology
• English pleonastic compounds
• Pleonastic compounds by language

参照

Further reading

• “pleonasm”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• pleonasm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• neoplasm, planemos