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What is the meaning of the longest word in the English language which dictionaries have the space to include?

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What is the meaning of the longest word in the English language which dictionaries have the space to include?
posted Sep 10, 2020 by Nikhil Pandey

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Lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust
The word is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (forty-five letters). Estimation of something as valueless is "floccinaucinihilipilification" (twenty-nine letters); the opposition etc is "antidisestablishmentarianism" (twenty-eight letters); things impossible to understand is "incomprehensibilities" (twenty-one letters) which was in the 1990s seen as the longest word in common usage. Two words not included in major dictionaries, presumably for lack of space, are the chemical terms "Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamyl...serine) (1,809 letters) and "Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine " (189,819 letters); they are seen as the longest.

answer Sep 11, 2020 by Varuna Magar
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