World’s Longest English Sentences And Longest English Words

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Longest Sentences

Longest English Sentence: Guinness Book of Records

Do you that the recognized longest English sentence by the Guinness Book of Records contains 1,287words. It is the longest sentence in English from William Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom.

A Sentence with 12,931 Words

Have you read James Joyce’s Ulysses? The last section of Ulysses, Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy, consists of two sentences. The first sentence contains 11,281 words and the second sentence contains 12,931 words.

A Sentence with 13,955 Words

How about Jonathan Coe’s 2001 novel, The Rotter’s Club? This novel contains an impressive 13,955-word sentence.

Longest Words

1.) 189,819 Letter Word: World’s Longest Word

Yes, the longest word in the world is an unbelievable 189,819 letters long. It’s the chemical name of “titin”, the largest known protein. However, the word is not in dictionary and it is disputed whether it’s a word. The word is “Mythionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine”. I am sorry but I can’t write it in full because we will be consuming so many pages if I do.

2.) 183 Letter Word: World’s Longest Word Coined by an Author

A word with 183 letters is considered as the longest word ever to appear in literature. It was coined by the Ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristhopanes. It is not in the dictionary and the word is

“Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperister-alektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterygon”.The word is describes as a dish by stringing together its ingredients.

3.) Longest Word Made By James Joyce

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“Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk” is a 101 letter word created by James Joyce in his novel Finnegans Wake. He made up nine 101-letter word in this novel. This very long word that appears on the first page represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve.

4.) Coined as the Longest Word in a Dictionary

The longest English word is a word with 45 letters and can be found in the dictionary. The word is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovlocanoconiosis”. Medically, it is the same as silicosis. It is the longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries. The word is referred to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano.

5.) Longest Coined Film and Musical Word

The 34 letter word “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is popular for being created for the film and musical “Mary Poppins”. This 34-letter word which is the title of a song from the movie May Poppins means “a word that you say when you don't know what to say”. The creation of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman.

6.) Longest Non-coined Word and the Longest Word in the Oxford English Dictionary

The 30 letter word “Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism” is the longest non-coined word in a major dictionary and the longest English word in the Oxford Dictionary. It is an inherited disorder, named for its similarity to pseudohypoparathyroidism in presentation.

7.) Longest Non-technical Word

The 30 letter word “Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian” is the longest non-technical word which means a word coined so as to be very long.

8.) Longest Unchallenged Non-technical Word

The world’s longest unchallenged non-technical word is “Floccinaucinihilipilification”which contains 29 letters. It is defined as “the act of estimating something as worthless”; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. It is the longest non-technical word in major dictionaries.

9.) Longest Non-Coined and Non-technical Word

The world’s longest non-coined and non-technical word is “Antidisestablishmentarianism”. It contains 27 letters. It is a political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.

10.) Longest Word in Shakespeare’s Works

The longest word in Shakespeare’s works is the Latin word “Honorificabilitudinitatibus”. It contains 27 letters. Its meaning can be translated as “the state of being able to achieve honors”.

See also

*English Words with Unique Plural Forms

*Lost and Found Myths of Two Most Used Hand Gestures and a Popular Word

*100 Different Body Parts and Related Things with Their Corresponding Medical terms

*The Longest Words From Around the World