The definition was provided for the illiterate majority. I lament the need for the redundancy, not the fact of it.
Cheese and Rice! Blatant academic arrogance!
Unfamiliarity with arcane words now defines the rest of us as illiterate? OK, I accept the humorous presumption.
It's been a long time since I've run across a worse (better?) example of self-inflating pomposity.