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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis vs Eunoia - What's the difference?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis | eunoia |

As nouns the difference between pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and eunoia

is that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is (label) a factitious disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from eruption of a volcano while eunoia is (rhetoric) goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

English

Alternative forms

* pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-coniosis * pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis *

Noun

(pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses)
  • (label) A factitious disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from eruption of a volcano.
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year = 1980 , month = March , title = Black Lung , first = Lorin E. , last = Kerr , journal = Journal of Public Health Policy , volume = 1 , issue = 1 , page = 50 , jstor = 3342357 , passage = Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 1998-08-27 , title = Lament for a Lung Disease , author = Smokey , newsgroup = talk.bizarre , id = 6s3r8o$brt$1@camel15.mindspring.com , url = http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/browse_thread/thread/3db7020dcb5b531e/cbd79ebd7c266219?q=pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , passage = I say that it must be the silica dust
    That we breathed through our mouths and our noses
    That brought pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis . }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2002-12-18T04:19:52 , group = alt.fan.scarecrow , author = Pod , title = Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , id = iHSL9.2091$h43.295898@stones , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.scarecrow/msg/39876843908f9513 , passage = It's either pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , or a bad cough. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2011-04-28 , title = Am I the Person My Mother Warned Me About?: A Four-year College Experience ... Only the Good Parts , first = Kurt D. , last = Stradtman , publisher = Xlibris , isbn = 9781462862887 , lccn = 2011906469 , page = 90 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=06v2Q_rL_dAC&pg=PA90&dq=pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , passage = I still can't watch House M.D.'' and not have my mind wonder Even I can fear of(SIC) having ''Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis after watching it. }}

    Quotations

    Coordinate terms

    * black lung * potter's rot * miner cough

    Hypernyms

    * pneumoconiosis * silicosis

    Usage notes

    (Usage notes) * The Oxford English Dictionary lists pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis as “a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanos’ but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word”. * This word was invented purely to be a contender for the title of the longest word in the English language, comprising forty-five letters and nineteen syllables. The word is not in official medical usage, and textbooks refer to this disease as pneumonoconiosis, pneumoconiosis, or silicosis. ; Other contenders for the title of “the longest word in the English language” * hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — 35 letters * supercalifragilisticexpialidocious — 34 letters * floccinaucinihilipilificatious — 30 letters * floccinaucinihilipilification — 29 letters * antidisestablishmentarianism — 28 letters

    References

    English words suffixed with -osis Long English words

    eunoia

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (qualifier)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rhetoric) Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart.
  • * 1994 , Eugene Garver, Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character , page 112
    • Direct argument is a dangerous strategy for developing eunoia , since "those who have many friends and treat everyone as close to them seem to be friends to no one, except in a fellow-citizens way. These people are regarded as ingratiating."
  • (medicine, psychology) A state of normal adult mental health.
  • * 1899', Editorial Comment: "A New Faculty and its Localization", ''Medicine'' ' 5 : 584
    • The author says if we translate this metopic or coronal curve into the language of psychology we have eunoia or prothymia.
  • * 1912', William Eastbrook Chancellor, "Temperment and the Education of Foreigners and of Their Children for American Citizenship", ''Educational Foundations'' ' 39 (1)
    • We can usually tell which baby at three months old will never reach even imbecility, which child at three will never reach morinoia, habits of life, which boy or girl at six or seven will be arrested in morinoia and not proceed into eunoia .

    Related terms

    * morinoia * paranoia