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No, it is not. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is.
set.
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 45 letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.According to the dictionary it is a lung disease causing inflammation of the lung from the inhalation of fine silica dust.
I have heard that the word "set" has the longest entry in the Oxford Dictionary because of the many different meanings it has.
philosophy
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the oxford English dictionary. It is a a supposed lung disease and has 45 letters within it.
The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," a term referring to a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silicate or quartz dust. This 45-letter word is often cited as an example of an intentionally long word coined to serve as the longest English word. While it is rarely used in everyday language, it highlights the potential for word formation in English.
The longest word in English language is pneumonoultramicroscopic silicovolcanoconiosis.(I split the word because it won't show up properly when I write it without breaking it up) It is the name of a lung disease. It is known as pneumonia in short.
According to a book called Wicked Words , this IS the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary. But the actual longest word in the world is the latin name (i think) of the element Titin , which has more than 18,000 letters in it !
It is the longest word in the Oxford dictionary but there are longer words. There is a 310 letter word that means a deluded human who practices divination. Some other long words are ant idistestableshmentarianism and hippopotomontrosesquippedaliophobia.
Twyndyllyngs is the longest word in English that doesn't contain one of the five vowels (AEIOU). It comes from Welsh and is obviously rare, but it does appear in the Oxford English Dictionary. It turns out that "twyndyllyng" (singular) is a 15th century spelling of the word "twinling," which means, in modern English, "twin."
It refers to a disease caused by the inhalation of small particles of quartz or silica. The Oxford English Dictionary regards it as a made-up word, made specifically in order to create the longest word in the English language.