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What does this word mean - Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobi? I read somewhere, that it means fear of long words. Is there really such word? |
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobi indeed means fear of long words - check this - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia And if you are interested in how it is coined - "extension of sesquipedalian with monstrum (“monster”) and a truncated, misspelled form of hippopotamus, intended to exaggerate the length of the word itself and the idea of the size of the words being feared; combined with phobia." - from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia |
