Just thought I ought to do a blog dedicated to long words. Those with Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia may want to stop reading here. This blog is going to make oxymoron and paradox look like cow and pig. My favorite would have to be floccinaucinihilipilification. It is the longest word that is listed in over 20 major dictionaries. Other words like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis or hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies only listed in one or two because they're only used in science or the medical world, or in the case of antidisestablishmentarianism, which was thought to be the longest word in the dictionary for a very long time, it was dropped from many dictionaries
due to it's usage being almost nonexistent, and it's meaning irrelevant to the present day. Floccinaucinihilipilification means to regard as worthless, and I would love to be able to use this word often, if I could only pronounce it. Another wonderful long word is honorificabilitudinitatibus, which means honorableness. And was used several times by (can you guess) Shakespeare! That would be fun to use during a business meeting. "It was a pleasure doing business with you, you show promise of becoming a partner of much honorificabilitudinitatibus" But overall, the longest word in the dictionary that has never been up for debate or dropped by other dictionaries or had it's origins questioned would be floccinaucinihilipilification, and it has just become my new favorite word. The words disproportionableness and incomprehensibilities have been recognized as the longest commonly used words though, and everybody knows that smile is the longest word, because there's a mile between the first and last letters.
due to it's usage being almost nonexistent, and it's meaning irrelevant to the present day. Floccinaucinihilipilification means to regard as worthless, and I would love to be able to use this word often, if I could only pronounce it. Another wonderful long word is honorificabilitudinitatibus, which means honorableness. And was used several times by (can you guess) Shakespeare! That would be fun to use during a business meeting. "It was a pleasure doing business with you, you show promise of becoming a partner of much honorificabilitudinitatibus" But overall, the longest word in the dictionary that has never been up for debate or dropped by other dictionaries or had it's origins questioned would be floccinaucinihilipilification, and it has just become my new favorite word. The words disproportionableness and incomprehensibilities have been recognized as the longest commonly used words though, and everybody knows that smile is the longest word, because there's a mile between the first and last letters.