Meaning: Fear of long words
Root from Latin sēsquipedālis (literally “a foot and a half long”), from Latin sēsqui (“one and a half times”) + Latin pedālis (“measuring a foot, foot (relational)”)
And to make it even longer, non-nonsensical parts were added to make:
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
sources:
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalophobia#English
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian#English
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
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