Posted by Asim on June 29, 2001
In Reply to: ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM posted by Bruce Kahl on February 16, 2000
: : Does anyone know exactly what "Disestablishmentarainism" means? Is it the longest english word?
: ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM (28 letters) may be the best-known long word. The word means "the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state."
: PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)
sohow come, none of the above words can be found in the english dictionary??? i've looked in evry1 I have but none of them contain the word