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| Periphrasial pleonasm | ||||||||
| Periphrasial pleonasm: circumlocutious, redundant, and wordy use of more words than are needed for the sense | ||||||||
| Simply put, periphrasial pleonasm is using more words than neccessarry. Here is an example of periphrasial plaonasm. The following passage describes a normal and good-natured human: Openly bipedal cephalized apernicious apyromanical bimanual unautophanous polychromatic unamenable tetronious unasperitious polyphagus unblasphemus concientious adipsomaniacal eurythymical unincendiarious decadigital biocular omnivorus adiaphanous bipulmonary monocardiary cardiopulmonarily active unobstreperous heterotroph. |
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