longest word?

Question

i know flockinockinihilipilification was the longest word in the english dictionary,which aptly means nothing by the way! but has another word replaced it as the longest word?

Answer 1

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- 1,913 characters (chem. in Mrs Byrne's Dict. See appendix 2)

Answer 2

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, but 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 context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.


Antidisestablishmentarianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is one of the longest words in the English language.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English


Hope I've helped x

Answer 3

The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.

"Antidisestablishmentarianism" (second place with 28 letters) 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 stāre, 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 (alternatively, but less likely and quite similar in meaning, "opposed to disestablishmentarians", depending on what "anti-" is taken to belong to)

antidisestablishmentarian-ism
the movement or ideology of advocates of opposition to disestablishment; the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment

Of course, the process need not stop there: prefixes like neo- and contra- can be added, and -istically can be used in place of -ism. Given that there is essentially no limit to their length, it is dubious whether any of them can lay a claim to being the "longest" word

These types of constructions can be made using any word.

So, you were right (however off the spelling was... ) with your guess.

There are some hoax words that have to do with medical terms, apparently people believed them because they did not want to get out a medical deictionary to validate such claims.

Answer 4

statitaphonicoxygenicamplifiergrammydelliverbarator, (49) doubt its in the dictionary, but it had something to do with Bill and Teds Excelent Adventure. Think it may ave been the ariel on top of their phonebox.

Not much help I know, but hey, everyone seemed to be being too sensible!

Answer 5

try supercarlifragilisticespialidotions which also means nothing but has been the longest word known to me since i was a kid

Answer 6

Loads of different answers depending upon if you include hyphens and names of diseases etc. I always thought it was
antidisestablishmentarianism ("opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England") And that is in the list. Check out the web address

Answer 7

Yeah, as far as I know, the only ligit longest word is floccinoccinihilipilification.

Which is pronounced flossi-nossi-kneehill-eepill-ifi-cation.

Answer 8

Check the answers in the first posting of this question

Answer 9

smiles. There's a mile between the first and last letter. lol

Answer 10

http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html

it's got a LOT of long words