Urban Dictionary: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

The irrational fear of really long words

What's that? You're afraid of long words? Take "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" for a spin, you should be quite familiar with that.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia a fear very long words such as: antidisestablishmentarianism; floccinaucinihilipilification; ext

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Its pretty self-explanatory,

its ironically one of the longest words in the English dictionary and its the fear of long words.

guy 1: "I have the fear of long words."
guy 2: "You mean Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?"
guy 1: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

The fear of long words, as ironically the word itself is a long word.

Guy: "Dude, do you have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?"

Friend: internally screaming

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

This is the word that happened to be when someone smashed their head on a keyboard and it became a phobia. The irony is that the phobia is the fear of long words.

Doctor: So, it turns out you have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Patient: AHHHHH! WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?

by December 18, 2020