Definitions
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- noun The act or habit of describing or regarding something as
unimportant , of having no value or beingworthless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unfortunately he did not live long enough to marvel with me at the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" (29 letters), which I discovered by chance in my unabridged dictionary last year.
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My grandmother once gave me a T-shirt that said “floccinaucinihilipilification” on it.
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Just because 'fleece' makes me think of 'floccinaucinihilipilification' ...
Human Brain Cloud 2007
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Just because 'fleece' makes me think of 'floccinaucinihilipilification' ...
Human Brain Cloud 2007
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Just because 'fleece' makes me think of 'floccinaucinihilipilification' ...
Human Brain Cloud 2007
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My grandmother once gave me a T-shirt that said “floccinaucinihilipilification” on it.
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Just because 'fleece' makes me think of 'floccinaucinihilipilification' ...
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The floccinaucinihilipilification of no planes theory (that no planes crashed on 9/11) has proven to be not only -- how can I say it -- floccinaucinihilipilificatious, but wrong.
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Just because 'fleece' makes me think of 'floccinaucinihilipilification' ...
Human Brain Cloud 2007
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Y U purrtisapayt in floccinaucinihilipilification?
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dbmag9 commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
Clearly this word is useless.
December 2, 2006
tankexmortis commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.org/
February 1, 2007
super-charlotte commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
i agree the word is totally useless.
September 8, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
'1741, a combination of four Latin words (flocci, nauci, nihili, pilifi) all signifying "at a small price" or "for nothing," which were listed together in a rule of the well-known Eton Latin Grammar. The kind of jocular formation that was possible among educated men in Britain in those days.'
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/floccinaucinihilipilification
October 21, 2007
seanahan commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
I did not realize that, but it makes a lot of sense. The humor of Eton is lost on the rest of the world.
October 22, 2007
cricket commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
I think you guys are just egging uselessness on.
March 3, 2008
snoctipii commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
ahahahahaha.... people, the word is a pun...
March 10, 2008
brokenwolf commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
Au contraire! No word is totally useless. I've made lots of people laugh by being able to actually say it in addition to knowing what it means.
It's a prime example of one of those "Phileas Fogg" words that erudite folks seemed to enjoy inventing in Victorian times. :)
May 23, 2008
brookdale_chick commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
??????
WOW!
big word!
dunno if it is much good in the real world because NO ONE can read it.......
SIMPLE WORDS FOR SIMPLE MINDED PEOPLE!!
July 7, 2008
rainerlourie commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication. A very nice word, definitely not useless!!
August 1, 2008
claytonco commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
Valuing something as worthless. As in, "I'm sick of that political party's constant nay-saying; it's sheer delight in floccinaucinihilipilification."
This word is often listed as one of the longest in the language. A Patrick O'Brien and George Will type of word.
May 14, 2009
martin commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
the tendency to find little or no value in things.
June 3, 2009
acapnotic commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm
June 25, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
JM looks into his Floccinaucinihilipilification file and is surprised that it is almost full
April 2, 2010
ab commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
Wow... Wat a word tis.....?!!!
June 9, 2010
alexz commented on the word floccinaucinihilipilification
I just read that this is John Conway's favourite word. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world
January 1, 2016