Can someone tell me what's the longest word in English dictionary?

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  1. Ancient_Yesterday251 Registered Senior Member

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    antidisestablishmenterionism.....damn typos.

    I know the German word for constipated..............Farfompoopen, lol

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  3. vslayer Registered Senior Member

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    antidisestablimentarianism:

    establishmentarian - someone who is trying to or wants to unite the government with the catholic church

    disestablishmentarian - someone who is trying to or wants to prevent that

    antidisestablishmentarian - someone who opposes the views of disestablishmentarians but does not necessarily agree with establihmentarians

    antidisestablishmentarianism - the views of an antidisestablishmentarian

    pseudoantidisestablihmentarian - someone who pretends to be an antidisestablihmentarian

    pseudoantidisestablihmentarianism - the views of someone pretending to be an antidisestablishmentarian


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  5. curioucity Unbelievable and odd Registered Senior Member

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    Well well well..... here we have prefixes and suffixes to make things merrier.... hahaha...
     
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  7. exsto_human Transitional Registered Senior Member

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    pseudoantisemipseudoantidisestablishmentarianistic principles- the principles based on the views of some one pretending to be against the opinion of someone partly against the views of those who pretend to oppose the the position maintained by those against diestablishmenterianism.
     
  8. exsto_human Transitional Registered Senior Member

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    note: these principles are of a highly hypothetical nature
     
  9. vslayer Registered Senior Member

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    thats 2 words, ha
     
  10. curioucity Unbelievable and odd Registered Senior Member

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    Any mod, please lock this topic, thank you.... I'm afraid it's gonabe a spam paradise. Don't worry, this topic has long served its purpose.
     
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