Language
- Redundancy (linguistics), the construction of a phrase that presents some idea using more information, often via multiple means, than is necessary for one to be able to understand the idea
- Tautology (rhetoric), an unnecessary or unessential (and sometimes unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing twice (often originally from different languages)
- Pleonasm, the use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression, often redundantly
- Logorrhoea (linguistics), an excessive flow of words more generally
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