What's the word for this?
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What's the word for this?
by Trevor » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:12 pm
Like an oxymoron is two contradictory words/concepts used together, what's the word when I "double" a word, for example, when I combine two words with the same concept, basically, it serves as a kind of repeat??
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Re: What's the word for this?
by anon » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:13 pm
Redundant.
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"Every classification throws light on something." - Isaiah Berlin
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Trevor » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:25 pm
anon wrote:Redundant.
In essence but not quite. I'm looking for the technical term.
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Re: What's the word for this?
by anon » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:27 pm
trevor wrote:anon wrote:Redundant.
In essence but not quite. I'm looking for the technical term.
Reduplication?
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Only_Humean » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:48 am
trevor wrote:Like an oxymoron is two contradictory words/concepts used together, what's the word when I "double" a word, for example, when I combine two words with the same concept, basically, it serves as a kind of repeat??
Tautology.
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Moreno » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:29 pm
Only_Humean wrote:trevor wrote:Like an oxymoron is two contradictory words/concepts used together, what's the word when I "double" a word, for example, when I combine two words with the same concept, basically, it serves as a kind of repeat??
Tautology.
I dunno.
A large enormousness
isn't really a tautology. If I said it was large because it was enormous, that's getting tautological.
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Moreno » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:32 pm
trevor wrote:Like an oxymoron is two contradictory words/concepts used together, what's the word when I "double" a word, for example, when I combine two words with the same concept, basically, it serves as a kind of repeat??
I don't think there is a word, a noun.
Superfluity gets the idea, but is not specific at all.
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Only_Humean » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:33 am
Moreno wrote:Only_Humean wrote:Tautology.
I dunno.
A large enormousness
isn't really a tautology. If I said it was large because it was enormous, that's getting tautological.
I'm not sure why you think that. "A large enormousness" is a tautology, just as "a small enormousness" is an oxymoron.
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Archangel » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:00 am
trevor wrote:Like an oxymoron is two contradictory words/concepts used together, what's the word when I "double" a word, for example, when I combine two words with the same concept, basically, it serves as a kind of repeat??
The technical term for this is pleonasm.
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Trevor » Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:51 pm
Archangel wrote:trevor wrote:Like an oxymoron is two contradictory words/concepts used together, what's the word when I "double" a word, for example, when I combine two words with the same concept, basically, it serves as a kind of repeat??
The technical term for this is pleonasm.
Possibly, cool word nonetheless though. Cheers, thanks.
Pleonasm.
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Re: What's the word for this?
by Arcturus Descending » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:21 pm
Archangel wrote:trevor wrote:Like an oxymoron is two contradictory words/concepts used together, what's the word when I "double" a word, for example, when I combine two words with the same concept, basically, it serves as a kind of repeat??
The technical term for this is pleonasm.
No, that would like PM in the afternoon.
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