Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant.
Examples
“Unfortunately he did not live long enough to marvel with me at the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" (29 letters), which I discovered by chance in my unabridged dictionary last year.”
“The floccinaucinihilipilification of no planes theory (that no planes crashed on 9/11) has proven to be not only -- how can I say it -- floccinaucinihilipilificatious, but wrong.”
“My grandmother once gave me a T-shirt that said “floccinaucinihilipilification” on it.”
“Just because 'fleece' makes me think of 'floccinaucinihilipilification' ...”
“Y U purrtisapayt in floccinaucinihilipilification?”
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“Where else can you find a derivation of floccinaucinihilipilification?”
“Just the other day, I ran across "knapsack problem" and "floccinaucinihilipilification" (a word, the dictionary informs us, used primarily as an example of one of the longest words in the language).”
“The article to which you like justly dismisses pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis as a hoax, and floccinaucinihilipilification as a mere stunt word, but then goes on to dismiss antidiestablishmentarianism on the grounds that it “has become limited to simply yet another example of a very longword”.”
“Floccinaucinihilipilificators, or “Haters” for short, or “h8rs” for shorter, are people who engage in excessive floccinaucinihilipilification.”
“Floccinaucinihilipilificators, hay "kẻ thù ghét" cho ngắn, hoặc "h8rs" cho ngắn hơn, là những người tham gia vào các floccinaucinihilipilification quá mức.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’.
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Silly-sounding words
Serious words that sound silly when you say them
philosophunculist, argy-bargy, Labradoodle, shittah, shittim, floccinaucinihili..., succedaneum, honorificabilitud..., fag-ma-fuff, buffarilla, yazzihamper, mammothrept and 140 more...
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Varsha's List
purlicue, erinaceous, floccinaucinihili..., inaniloquent, nihilarian, nudiustertian, pulveratricious, selcouth, rastaquouere, tyrotoxism, widdiful, fidimplicitary
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Best words ever
The most awesome words.
abacot, aristology, autohagiography, backronym, bafflegab, bodacious, boustrophedonic, brobdingnagian, bromopnea, cachinnatory, dactylonomy, eagre and 26 more...
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Sophaloaf's list
Favorites!
belle, starfish, photography, buddha, dinosaur, floccinaucinihili..., hypoallergenic, sailor, gorgeous, adhesive, imagination, artichokes and 55 more...
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Lyeneia's Field Journal
footnotes and add-ons from the gap-lands.
limey, apostate, conflagrate, kindle, dispossess, provenience, reckless malice, honking didactica..., consequential exi..., morainal, morae, compass and 28 more...
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concatenation
concatenation
con - come together
catena - chain
ate - N>V
tion - V>Nconcatenation, oesophagogastrodu..., strengthlessness, concatemers, consanguineously, map kinase kinase..., hyperlipoproteinemia, otorhinolaryngolo..., ovoviviparous, indogermanicum, polymerization, antropyloroduodenal and 23 more...
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Longest Word
antidisestablishm..., floccinaucinihili..., non-universalizab..., antiegalitarianism, pneumonoultramicr..., Supercalifragilis..., Pseudoantidisesta..., Llanfairpwllgwyng...
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sesquipedalian
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., sesquipedalian, tintinnabulation
ab Wow... Wat a word tis.....?!!! Jun 9, 2010
jmjarmstrong JM looks into his Floccinaucinihilipilification file and is surprised that it is almost full Apr 2, 2010
acapnotic http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm Jun 24, 2009
martin the tendency to find little or no value in things. Jun 3, 2009
claytonco Valuing something as worthless. As in, "I'm sick of that political party's constant nay-saying; it's sheer delight in floccinaucinihilipilification."
This word is often listed as one of the longest in the language. A Patrick O'Brien and George Will type of word. May 14, 2009
rainerlourie flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication. A very nice word, definitely not useless!! Jul 31, 2008
brookdale_chick ??????
WOW!
big word!
dunno if it is much good in the real world because NO ONE can read it.......
SIMPLE WORDS FOR SIMPLE MINDED PEOPLE!! Jul 7, 2008
brokenwolf Au contraire! No word is totally useless. I've made lots of people laugh by being able to actually say it in addition to knowing what it means.
It's a prime example of one of those "Phileas Fogg" words that erudite folks seemed to enjoy inventing in Victorian times. :) May 22, 2008
snoctipii ahahahahaha.... people, the word is a pun... Mar 9, 2008
cricket I think you guys are just egging uselessness on. Mar 2, 2008
seanahan I did not realize that, but it makes a lot of sense. The humor of Eton is lost on the rest of the world. Oct 21, 2007
vanishedone '1741, a combination of four Latin words (flocci, nauci, nihili, pilifi) all signifying "at a small price" or "for nothing," which were listed together in a rule of the well-known Eton Latin Grammar. The kind of jocular formation that was possible among educated men in Britain in those days.'
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/floccinaucinihilipilification Oct 21, 2007
super-charlotte i agree the word is totally useless. Sep 8, 2007
tankexmortis http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.org/ Jan 31, 2007
dbmag9 Clearly this word is useless. Dec 2, 2006