Usually means: Use of long, obscure words.
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  1. sesquipedalianism: Merriam-Webster
  2. sesquipedalianism: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sesquipedalianism: Wordnik
  4. sesquipedalianism: Wiktionary
  5. Sesquipedalianism, sesquipedalianism: Dictionary.com
  6. Sesquipedalianism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Sesquipedalianism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Sesquipedalianism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. sesquipedalianism: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sesquipedalianism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. sesquipedalianism: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. sesquipedalianism: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  (uncountable) The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
▸ noun:  (countable) A very long word.

Similar:
sesquipedalism, sesquipedalian, sesquipedalianist, sesquipedalophobia, perissology, circumlocution, polysyllabicism, tautology, pleonasm, lexiphanicism, more...

Opposite:
conciseness, brevity, succinctness

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Similar:
sesquipedalism, sesquipedalian, sesquipedalianist, sesquipedalophobia, perissology, circumlocution, polysyllabicism, tautology, pleonasm, lexiphanicism, more...

Opposite:
conciseness, brevity, succinctness



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