Redundantly

Redundantly is an adverb meaning in a manner that involves unnecessary repetition or duplication. It is formed from the adjective redundant, which describes something that repeats itself or contains more elements than needed. In writing, describing phrasing as redundantly expressed signals that the text offers repetition that adds no new information. In information technology and logistics, actions or systems described as redundantly performed or implemented may indicate inefficiency unless the repetition serves a reliability purpose.

Etymology: Redundant comes from Latin redundare "to overflow". English acquired redundant through Old French and Middle English developments. The adverb redundantly is created by adding the -ly suffix to the adjective, standard for forming adverbs in English.

Usage notes: Redundantly is more common in formal or technical discourse than in everyday speech. It is often used critically, but in some contexts redundancy is deliberately engineered for fault tolerance, where components or data are duplicated to prevent failures. In such cases the same action might be described as redundantly implemented, even though the overall system design aims to be robust.

Related terms: redundancy, redundant, duplicative, superfluous; preferred alternatives when the goal is brevity include concisely, succinctly, or efficiently.