A few days ago
austin c

is flaucinaucihilipafilification really a word?

i’ve heard this word on commercials and tv shows, but cant find it in my dictionary, but i cant find antidisestablishmentarienism in my dictionary either.

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A few days ago
SV

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I’m pretty sure the first one exists too, but I can’t get the spelling right either. It means “the act of assessing something as being worthless”. (EDIT: see below)

“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

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A few days ago
Anonymous
Antidisestablishmentarianism

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

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A few days ago
Anonymous
No. And antidisestablishmentarianism is in the dictionary (at least on the internet) but you spelled it wrong.
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A few days ago
Bad Kitty!
It’s flaucinaucinihilipilification (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

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A few days ago
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All right!! – I stand corrected. There is such a word!! You can Google it and/or look it up on Wikipedia. Here is the correct spelling of it (I think!)-

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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