I think I spent about a week coming to terms with it, if only so I can post in threads like this. It means "The act or habit of estimating a person or object as worthless", or something close to that.

flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification. Try sorting out each part individually.

floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word in the English language. The longest is

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a word that describes 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes', it is also mostly a trivia word. Note that it's comprised of a bunch of other words, in particular microscopic and volcano, hence it's a technical word and was created to be the world's longest word. Also worth a mention is electrophotomicrographically.

No, I don't have all this in memory, only the bits about floccinaucinihilipilification. But this thread got me interested, so I popped over to Wikipedia and had a look.

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