floccinaucinihilipilification


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floccinaucinihilipilification

, floccipend - Floccinaucinihilipilification is estimating or categorizing something as worthless, and floccipend means "regard as insignificant" (from Latin flocci pendere, "hold at little value").
See also related terms for insignificant.
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floccinaucinihilipilification

the categorizing of something as valueless trivia.
See also: Values
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As the Indian economy is in a tailspin, a member of the monetary policy committee, Chetan Ghate, said, "estimates of economic growth in India have unfortunately been subject to a fair degree of floccinaucinihilipilification. Notwithstanding this, growth is likely to pick up."
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Floccinaucinihilipilification is considering something as worthless.
The longest main entry in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 29-letter FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION -it contains a solitary element, TIN.
Someone who uses words like floccinaucinihilipilification and is rumoured to sleep in doublebreasted pyjamas is too eccentric to be our national leader.
They seemed to have developed floccinaucinihilipilification, a toxic attitude of simply dismissing what they heard as nothing.
Surely not the same Jacob with a liking for double-breasted pyjamas and using words like floccinaucinihilipilification in parliamentary debate.
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And although some of these words are inordinately sesquipedalian, like "floccinaucinihilipilification" for example, they are all of a finite length.