Definitions | sesquipedalianism |
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- The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
- A word that is a foot-and-a-half long; a very long word.
Etymology: From Latin sesquipedalis, a foot and a half long, or, in metaphorical use, of an unnatural length, huge, big, from sesqui, one and a half times as great + pedalis, foot.
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