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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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

  1. n. uncountable The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
  2. n. countable A very long word.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Sesquipedality.

Etymologies

  1. Surface form analyzed as sesquipedalian +‎ -ism, from sesqui- (“one and a half”) +‎ pedalian (“of the foot”). (Wiktionary)

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