Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition of being sesquipedalian; the practice of using, or fondness for using, long words; also, a long word, or a style abounding in long words.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
- n. countable A very long word.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Sesquipedality.
Etymologies
- Surface form analyzed as sesquipedalian + -ism, from sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedalian (“of the foot”). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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The Volokh Conspiracy » “Writing to Impress Rather than Inform”
“(I may be accused of sesquipedalianism though, hope so)”
“All this sesquipedalianism is causing a contraction of my neurological blood vessels which will inevitably lead to the disruption of my suprachiasmatic nucleus affecting my endogenous circadian rhythms.”
“It goes beyond mere sesquipedalianism to the Lexiphanic.”
“They're unavoidable in a breezy popular book, but the style of this book is so annoying that he gives sesquipedalianism a bad name.”
“Sorry for the sesquipedalianism, and my apologies to those who suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. heh heh heh .... love ya Rex, even with all yer far right winger warts that you grew during the Bush Years.”
“Then again, even the White Queen would have trouble believing that embracing a system of sesquipedalianism will make everything right with the world.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sesquipedalianism’.
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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ikahime's Words
callipygian, squidocracy, epicene, alkahest, syzygy, pysmatic, ideopraxist, quandary, vulpine, fandango, ataraxia, exsanguinate and 92 more...
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technodiva's list
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eighthrs's list
sesquipedalianism, cannonade, friscalating, revelry, inconsequential, pulchritude
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jaden's Words
countermand, reconcile, pervasive, inherent, dichotomy, ancillary, tenuous, viable, potentate, gestalt, esoteric, ephemeral and 136 more...
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annajane's Words
slumgullion, crivens, fob, albedo, heuristic, awkward, hirsute, wrath, aphasia, logorrhea, lachrymose, cohort and 52 more...
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gefafwisp's Words
interminable, sesquipedalianism, hippodrome, prerogative, noggin, hubris, moratorium, whimsy, woggle, defenestrate, pleb, azimuth and 3 more...
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PresentSimple's List
Words which I have came across and want to remember.
dasypygal, patois, anhedonia, aculia, pleonasm, tautology, verbose, disingenuous, felicitous, bête noire, dissolute, scatology and 83 more...
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dreamstorm's Words
stillicide, detrimental, swedge, nictate, thaumaturge, lacuna, abscond, thanatognomonic, lambent, prestidigitate, lucubrate, prolix and 43 more...
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