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Sesquipedalianism

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
2.NounA very long word.
3.Noun↑ From A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language, Compiled Chiefly from the Magnum Totius Latinitatis Lexicon of Facciolati and Forcellini, and the German Works of Scheller and Luenemann, edited by F. P. Leverett, Wilkins, Carter & Co., Boston, 1849.
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