Floccinaucinihilipilification

Defined by the OED as the state or act of being overly nitpicky. I was told by my high school English teacher that the longest (excluding technical terms like chemical names and such) word in the English language is “antidisestablishmentarianism,” which is 28 characters long. The large word meaning “overly nitpicky” beats it out by 1 character.

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2 comments to Floccinaucinihilipilification

• drme

  June 6, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  The word actually means “the act of judging something to be worthless.” According to websters. They also made a good point, if you add normal english suffixes, the word loccinaucinihilipilificatiousness is formed, which means “smallness” or “insignificance” and is 34 letters long.

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  January 15, 2010 at 8:32 am

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