25 October 2011

Floccinaucinihilipilification

The longest non-technical word in the English language, floccinaucinihilipilification means the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, basically regarding something as worthless.

This word took me a while to remember and even longer to learn how to spell it (are you surprised?). The thing that fascinates me most about it is how this 29 letter word means something so small :-)

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