floccinaucinihilipilification

floccinaucinihilipilification meaning in Malay

Examples of floccinaucinihilipilification in a sentence

• Floccinaucinihilipilification in accounting - does it matter?2000, Raymond J. Chambers, Logic, Law, and Ethics:
• They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.2006, Sol Steinmetz, The life of language:
• Some people with low self-esteem are prone to floccinaucinihilipilification, the habit of deeming everything worthless.2009, Judith Orloff, Emotional Freedom:
• The quasi statistician would doubtlessly not know how to check this supposition, thus rendering the interpretation of the mean profit as floccinaucinihilipilification.2011, Bruce Ratner, Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining:

Forms of floccinaucinihilipilification

Origin of floccinaucinihilipilification

From Latin floccus (“a wisp”) + naucum (“a trifle”) + nihilum (“nothing”) + pilus (“a hair”) + -fication. A pseudo-Latinism orignating as a jocular coinage, apparently by pupils at Eton College, combining a number of Latin word stems. The word was inspired by a line present in various editions of William Lily's (c. 1468–1522) Latin grammars published around the 17th–19th centuries (including the Eton Latin Grammar), in which some nouns commonly used in the genitive case with some verbs like pendo and facio are listed, which express evaluating something as worthless or as previously mentioned; see the reference.

Words formed from floccinaucinihilipilification

• floccinaucinihilipilificate
• floccinaucinihilipilificatious

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Questions about floccinaucinihilipilification

What does floccinaucinihilipilification mean?

Floccinaucinihilipilification means the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.

What is floccinaucinihilipilification in Malay?

Floccinaucinihilipilification in Malay is memperkecil. See Floccinaucinihilipilification meaning in Malay.

How do you use floccinaucinihilipilification in a sentence?

Floccinaucinihilipilification in accounting - does it matter?

What part of speech is floccinaucinihilipilification?

Floccinaucinihilipilification is a noun.

How do you pronounce floccinaucinihilipilification?

Floccinaucinihilipilification is pronounced /ˌflɒksɪˌnɔːsɪˌnɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/ (UK).

What is the plural of floccinaucinihilipilification?

The plural of floccinaucinihilipilification is floccinaucinihilipilifications.