'pleonasm' in Consider David Foster Wallace | Bookmarker

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(noun) the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said); redundancy

Wallace refers to the Irish philosopher George Berkeley, whom he describes as "[...] a world-class pleonast [...]"

the OED definition follows

—p.64 Consider Berkeley & Co.: Reading "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way" (62) by Philip Coleman

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