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Floccinaucinihilipilification listen (American English: listen) is "the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation".

With 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which presents it "as enumerated in a well-known rule from the Eton Latin Grammar". The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".

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See also

* Antidisestablishmentarianism
* Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
* Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
* Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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