Etymology

Noun

1. Redundancy in wording.
   • 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. A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

   "They are both the same" is a pleonasm as the word "both" is redundant, as is "killed dead".