sesquipedalophobia
nounEtymology
From sesquipedalian + -phobia.
- derived from pedālis
- derived from sēsqui
- derived from sēsquipedālis
Definitions
Fear of long words.
- But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.
- That hasn't helped my sesquipedalophobia one bit...
- Ayesha was like a walking dictionary of phobias. She believed that I had sesquipedalophobia – the fear of long words.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sesquipedalophobia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA