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(colloquial) To describe, estimate or regard something as worthless.
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(often humorous) The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.
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* 1970 : , Master and Commander ,
* 2000 : Raymond J. Chambers, Logic, Law, and Ethics [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ei03tgPKEKcC&lpg=PA28&dq=floccinaucinihilipilification&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=floccinaucinihilipilification&f=false]:
* 2006 : Sol Steinmetz, The life of language [http://books.google.com/books?id=raN6AAAAIAAJ&q=floccinaucinihilipilification&dq=floccinaucinihilipilification&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dS8BU4bIMcTWyQHf94GwDw&ved=0CKsBEOgBMBc4PA],
* 2009 : Judith Orloff, Emotional Freedom [http://books.google.com/books?id=_V53VntvlmQC&lpg=PA312&dq=floccinaucinihilipilification&pg=PA312#v=onepage&q=floccinaucinihilipilification&f=false]:
* 2011 : Bruce Ratner, Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3KZCfmhWJwC&lpg=PT42&dq=floccinaucinihilipilification&pg=PT42#v=onepage&q=floccinaucinihilipilification&f=false]:
Long English words
Floccinaucinihilipilification is a related term of floccinaucinihilipilificate.
Floccinaucinihilipilificate is a related term of floccinaucinihilipilification.
As a verb floccinaucinihilipilificate
is {{context|colloquial|lang=en}} to describe or regard something as worthless.As a noun floccinaucinihilipilification is
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Verb
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Noun
(-)- I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money.
- There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
- Floccinaucinihilipilification in accounting - does it matter?
- They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.
- Some people with low self-esteem are prone to floccinaucinihilipilification , the habit of deeming everything worthless.
- The quasi statistician would doubtlessly not know how to check this supposition, thus rendering the interpretation of the mean profit as floccinaucinihilipilification .