New long word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

Alan · September 30, 2006, 9:44am

Hi,

My little funny has been cracked. Now then what about a genuine example of the longest word. Anyone ready to have a crack as to its meaning?

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM and you could also stick LIKE on the end if you wish.

Alan

Tamara · September 30, 2006, 11:40am

Definitely, that ‘ISM’ should be something opposite to DISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

Foah · September 30, 2006, 6:58pm

Hi!

I wonder whether that word really exists? I mean, for me it sounds double negativ: Anti_dis_establishmentarianism, doesn?t it?

Michael

Tamara · October 1, 2006, 7:24am

antidiscrimination (laws)?

Yankee · October 1, 2006, 7:52am

.
How about this:

antidisestablishmentarianismesque

Hercules · October 1, 2006, 7:58am

:shock:

:shock: :shock:

:lol: What’s that by Allah ?? :lol:

Herc

Alan · October 1, 2006, 8:54am

Hi,

Who can explain what the word means?

Alan

Conchita · October 1, 2006, 7:27pm

You’ll have to forgive my contemptuous [size=150]floccinaucinihilipilification[/size] of your word, Alan, but it can’t rival ‘mine’, I’m afraid: [size=200]pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis[/size] (a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease). :roll:

encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.c … arianistic

worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm

Alan · October 1, 2006, 7:49pm

Hi Conchita,

OK, I give in.

Alan

Yankee · October 1, 2006, 7:57pm

Ah, but can you say it, Conchita? :lol:

At least antidisestablishmentarianism is pronounceable.

Conchita · October 1, 2006, 9:12pm

Right, saying it is another matter altogether! Still, it’s a piece of cake as compared to memorizing it!

Conchita · October 1, 2006, 9:27pm

:lol:

An honest, humble and concise definition if there ever was one (for such a pretentiously grandiloquent thing)!

Tamara · October 2, 2006, 6:22am

Hi

Just to add several words for your enjoyment :

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
honorificabilitudinitatibus
floccinaucinihilipilification
Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine
immunoelectrophoretically
psychophysicotherapeutics
thyroparathyroidectomized
pneumoencephalographically
radioimmunoelectrophoresis
psychoneuroendocrinological
antidisestablishmentarianism
hepaticocholangiogastrostomy
spectrophotofluorometrically
floccinaucinihilipilification
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology
aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile

The longest word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289 H2051 N343 O375 S8

It is the chemical name of the protein part of the tobacco mosaic virus:

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Alan · October 2, 2006, 7:32am

Hi,

OK I’ll shut up although I’d still like an explanation of what must now be regarded as my pathetic little word.

Alan

Hercules · October 2, 2006, 7:47am

:shock: :shock: :shock:

:shock: :shock:

:shock:

I think that we need to an archaeologist to decipher this " hieroglyphs " . :lol:

Herc

Conchita · October 2, 2006, 8:25am

Not so pathetic, since, as I’ve read, it’s still the longest English word that was not invented for the purpose of being a very long word. Dictionaries say it refers to the Church of England and means opposition to the separation of church and state.

SkiIucK · October 10, 2006, 7:29pm

Antidisestablishmentarianism - a movement that is against the church being separated from the politics?

DOlier · October 11, 2006, 12:07am

Hi Conchita, Alan.

I knew what “antidisestablishment” meant: the proposed disestablishment of the Church of England in the 19th century, lead to the founding of the Church of Ireland and its seperation from the C of E, and it’s disestablishment from Westminster.

But what does “floccinaucinihilipilification” mean?

Conchita · October 11, 2006, 8:29am

It means estimating something as worthless or trivial.

Here’s the link again where to find a good explanation of the word:

worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm

Alan · October 11, 2006, 8:35am

Hi Conchita,

Mea culpa! I couldn’t resist it. The emboldened exclamation marks are mine.

Alan