What is the longest word in English that you are most familiar with, & is also one of your favorites?

Answer 1

My favorite is Onomatopoeia. Like WOW!

Answer 2

The real question is, why is "instantaneously" such a long word? I do not presume to be intimately familiar with words the accomplishment of whose syllabication requires exorbitant temporal commitment, but I am among the multitudinous whose logophilia has from an early age engendered a fascination with the expressive potentials made possible through the scholarly and ironical employment of linguistic articulation of simple ideas.

Answer 3

As someone who loves words and poetry (and rhyming strange words) I have lots that I love. Here are two from a story, "skullduggery" and "humbuggery."

"Seeping and creeping through the foliage with skillful skullduggery,

the ghosts controlled their hosts with willful humbuggery."

Answer 4

I have a medical/biological background in education and career, and I absolutely love words! So, you combine the two and you get this bad boy: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis.

Of course, you're not going to hear your PCP throw this one out there in an office visit! Ha!

It is a lung disease caused by ultra-fine particles of silica dust being inhaled and occluding the bronchioles and alveoli, obstructing oxygen and CO₂ exchange at the capillary level due to long-term inflammation, fibrosis, and tissue destruction.

Answer 5

I think one of my favorite "long" words would be incomprehensibility. There's just something intrinsically fun to me about how awkward the word is when you're saying it, especially as it means that something is inexplicably hard to understand.

Answer 6

Mine is antidisestablishmentarianism, which just means that someone was against disestablishment of the Church of England. Long and fun to spell!