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The Longest Words in the English Language

Published by silent author in Trivia
June 18, 2008

Everything the dictionary won’t tell you, or cant afford the pages to.

Honorificbilitudinitatibus: a word used in act five of Shakespeares play, “Love’s Labour’s Lost” it is a noun meaning the state of being able to achieve honours.

Antidisestablishmentarianism: a political position that originated in nineteenth century Britain where the people who believed in Antidisestablishmentarianism were opposed to proposals to remove the Church of englands’ status as the state church of England forwarded principally by both Payne and Tuffin.

Floccinaucinihilipilification: a word meaning the act of describing something as worthless.

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism: an inherited disorder that is caused by a mutation in a gene that is imprinted on the paternal chromosome and the longest word in the English language that is not a coined phrase, or the name of a place is… 

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust causing inflammation in the lungs topping off the list with 45 letters, this is truly one of the longest words ever. Although there exists one word, the name of a hill in New Zealand, it is the maori word for “hill” which makes me wonder how big the Word for “Mountain” must be. This ridiculously long word goes as follows.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Suprising? 85 letters,

I’d say so!

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