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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Latin synōnymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía). Doublet of synonymy.
