Trevor
July 1, 2011, 5:12pm
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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??
Trevor
July 1, 2011, 5:25pm
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anon:
Redundant.
In essence but not quite. I’m looking for the technical term.
Moreno
July 2, 2011, 10:29pm
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Only_Humean:
trevor:
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.
Moreno
July 2, 2011, 10:32pm
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trevor:
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.
I’m not sure why you think that. “A large enormousness” is a tautology, just as “a small enormousness” is an oxymoron.
trevor:
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.
Trevor
July 25, 2011, 2:51pm
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Possibly, cool word nonetheless though. Cheers, thanks.
Pleonasm.
No, that would like PM in the afternoon.
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