What is the difference between sesquipedian and sesquipedalianism?
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(uncountable) The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
* {{quote-book, year=1995, author=Michael Cart, title=From Romance to Realism, isbn=0060242892, page=257
, passage=His voice here is a marvelous juxtaposition of cool elegance, unaffected hipness, unabashed sesquipedalianism ("the rich bouquet of exuded sebaceousness") and swell conversational slang (...)}}
(countable) A very long word.