Longest Word In The World?

[Sangamon]

The official name of Bangkok (Thailand) is a word that needs to be respected.

กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์

Not too shabby, aye?

you pronounce it, more or less, like so:

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

 

[Reiku]

Wow!

 

[darini]

Cool. Any more examples of the longest words of other languages? In Portuguese:

- Pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico: defines the person with a disease caused by inhalating vulcanic ashes.

Interesting to note that the word ranked in 3rd is Hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia - the phobia to pronounce long and complicated words.

 

[tim840]

Pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico

The English word for this disease is the longest word in the language: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

One of the longest non-medical word is floccinaucinihilapilification, the act of declaring something worthless or valueless.

 

[Zardozi]

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737). The word is composed of the following elements:

* Aequeo: equal (Latin, aequo)
* Salino: containing salt (Latin, salinus)
* Calcalino: calcium (Latin, calx)
* Ceraceo: waxy (Latin, cera)
* Aluminoso: alumina (Latin)
* Cupreo: from "copper"
* Vitriolic: resembling vitriol

I disagree.
Cupreo means from the skull

 

[Prince_James]

Antidisestablishmentarianism can be infinitely prefixed sensibly and stands itself as the longest non-medical/non-scientific English word.

Consider:

Neocontraprotopseudoneoanticontraprotopseudoanticontracontraneoantineocontraneoantipseudoprotoantidiestablishmentarianism.

 

[tim840]

But neocontraprotopseudoneoanticontraprotopseudoanticontracontraneoantineocontraneoantipseudoprotoantidiestablishmentarianism is not a real word, you just made it up.