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super califragilistic expialidocious
i've always been told its...
Antidisestablishmentarianism
but apparently the new record holder is
Floccinaucinihilipilification
if the meaning was added something to remember
The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico... a 45-letter word which refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silicious particles. Research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.
The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).
The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is floccinaucinihilipilificat... at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741
Antidisestablishmentarianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is still in colloquial currency for being one of the longest words in the English language.
The longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27-letter honorificabilitudinitatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), only because it was Shakespeare who used it.
The humuhumunukunukuapua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish.[6] At 22 letters (including the okina), it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is occasionally quipped that the name is longer than the fish
In his play Ecclesiazousae ("The Assemblywomen"), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created: Lopadotemachoselachogaleo... a word of 183 letters which describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients.
Henry Carey's farce Chrononhotonthologos (1743) holds the opening line: "Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?"
James Joyce made up nine 100 and one 101-letter words in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarr... Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word. Sylvia Plath made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, when the protagonist was reading Finnegans Wake.
"Supercalifragilisticexpialido... the 34-letter title of a song from the movie Mary Poppins, does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don't know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman.
A parody song of the original Mary Poppins song, "Supercalifragilisticexpialido... was created by Doctor's Adam Kay and Sumas Biswas. Their song "Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomyc... is about a drug capable of curing most diseases. According to the song, some of the diseases include HIV AIDS, pubic lice and being struck by lightning. However, the side effects include vomiting hair loss, grow extra breasts, etc. This particular word is not in any dictionaries.
Advertising coinages
In 1973, Pepsi's advertising agency Boase Massimi Pollitt used the a 100-letter but several-word term "Lipsmackinthirstquenchina... in TV and film advertising. [7]
In 1975, the 71-letter (but several-word) advertising jingle Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucel... was first used in a McDonald's Restaurant advertisement to describe the Big Mac sandwich. [8]
Constructions
English is a language which permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes pseudo (false, spurious) and anti (against, opposed to) can be added as many times as desired. A word like anti-aircraft (pertaining to the defense against aircraft) is easily extended to anti-anti-aircraft (pertaining to counteracting the defense against aircraft, a legitimate concept) and can from there be prefixed with an endless stream of "anti-"s, each time creating a new level of counteraction. More familiarly, the addition of numerous "great"s to a relative, e.g. great-great-great-grandfather, can produce words of arbitrary length.
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction, as follows:
establish
to set up, put in place, or institute (originally from the Latin stare, to stand)
dis-establish
ending the established status of a body, in particular a church, given such status by law, such as the Church of England
disestablish-ment
the separation of church and state (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Britain)
anti-disestablishment
opposition to disestablishment
antidisestablishment-arian
an advocate of opposition to disestablishment
antidisestablishmentarian-ism
the movement or ideology which opposes disestablishment
Of course, the process need not stop there: prefixes like neo- and contra- can be added, or -istically can be used in place of -ism.
To answer your question the longest common (i.e., likely to appear in an unabridged dictionary) word is:
│pneumonoultramicroscopicsilic...
...volcanoconiosis│
(Unfortuately Y!A can't even 'print' the whole of this word)
It contains 45 letters and is refered to by logists as 'p45.' It is logged in the Guinness Book as the longest word in English.
It is said to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust. The more general and widely used term for this condition is 'pneumoconiosis,' also known as black lung disease.
the longest easy pronounceable word in the english dictionary is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico... containing 45 letters
theaequeosalinocalcalinocerace... is the l o n g e s t word in the english dictionary containing 52 letters
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