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."
Unlike Congress leader Shashi Tharoor who uses archaic and "unpronounceable" words like "
Floccinaucinihilipilification" and "schadenfreude", Justice Iyer creatively used the language and in the process, coined many new words.
In a tweet back in October 2018 he said "My new book, THE PARADOXICAL PRIME MINISTER, is more than just a 400-page exercise in
floccinaucinihilipilification. Pre-order it to find out why." (ANI)
Floccinaucinihilipilification is considering something as worthless.
You'll remember how the Mogg flummoxed MPs with the longest non-technical word in the English language -
floccinaucinihilipilification.
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.
SORRY seems to be the hardest word - well apart from
floccinaucinihilipilification.
Moving beyond
floccinaucinihilipilification: Enhancing the utility of systematic reviews.
And although some of these words are inordinately sesquipedalian, like "
floccinaucinihilipilification" for example, they are all of a finite length.