what is the longest word?

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Answer 1

The longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes an English word. English allows new words to be formed by construction; long words are coined; place names may be considered words; technical terms may be arbitrarily long. Length can be in terms of orthography and number of written letters or phonology and the number of phonemes.

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of fine silica dust, 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 meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

* The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

* The longest non-technical word is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters.

* 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), but only because it was Shakespeare who used it.
* The humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish.[7] 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.
* Although only fourteen letters long, sesquipedalian deserves a mention. It was used by the Roman author Horace to refer to words that are "a foot and a half long."

Answer 2

Longest "real" words:

English:
according to Guiness World Records, it is "floccinaucinihilipilification" ("the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation") (29); there are also others, such as: hyppopotamonstresamonodialogueaphobia (37) (which means "fear of big words"), supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, and acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonylphenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine (1185) (chemical name for "coat protein"; trust me, NO KIDDING!), and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (name of a disease

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French:
anticonstitutionnellement (25)

Spanish:
electroencefalográficamente (27)

Dutch:
hottentottententententoonstelIngen (35)

Finnish:
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Answer 3

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of fine silica dust, 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 meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

Answer 4

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
its a lung disease u get 4rm breathing in dust 4rm a volcano or sumthin like that

Answer 5

Not sure but I knew a guy Lopez Sahimalomingo.
Probably the one Mary Poppins used.

Answer 6

Pnemmonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (it's a disease you get from breathing in volcano dust. 45 letters!)

Answer 7

Floccinauccinihilipilification
Or, there is another one which is some sort of lung diseae that miners get, but I can't remember it.

Answer 8

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Ironically, that phobia is the fear of long words. Who would've thought.

Well, hope I helped you out!

Answer 9

antidisestablishmentarianism, or so I've been told...
check the second wikipedia source for a full explanation which *blush* contradicts mine

Answer 10

one of the longest words (in any language)
is ”perseverance”, the ability of clinging to your duty,
of not giving up in a world defined by video clips etc

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