is flaucinaucihilipafilification really a word?
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“Antidisestablishmentarianism” is the view that opposes (hence anti-) the idea of removing the link between the Church and the State (“disestablishment”).
EDIT: I have found the spelling. It’s floccinaucinihilipilification.
YA will probably not show the whole word so I’ll break it up into smaller components:
flocci nauci nihili pilification
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary has it at http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=flocci&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact
From open-dictionary.com – the free dictionary.
Definition
1) A political philosophy, opposed to the separation of church and of the state.
2) From Oxford English Dictionary; page 59; definition is as follows: “Properly, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, but popularly cited as an example of a long word.”
Floccinaucinihilipilification listen (help·info) (American English: listen (help·info)) (or variously floccipaucinihilipilification) is “the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Flaucinaucinihilipilification
Antidisestablishmentarianism ( a political philosophy that is opposed to the separation of church and state).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/antidisestablishmentarianism
Floccinaucinihilipilification (Whew!)
I’m still working on the correct pronounciation of it. I also think the word is about as worthless as it’s meaning.
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