repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact'' and `a free gift'' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started'' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant;
use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious";
more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare;
