antidisestablishmentarianism

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word antidisestablishmentarianism. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word antidisestablishmentarianism, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say antidisestablishmentarianism in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word antidisestablishmentarianism you have here. The definition of the word antidisestablishmentarianism will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofantidisestablishmentarianism, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ disestablishmentarian +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

Noun

antidisestablishmentarianism (usually uncountable, plural antidisestablishmentarianisms)

  1. A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group (church) and a government (state), especially the belief held by those in 19th-century England opposed to separating the Anglican church from the civil government or to refer to separation of church and state.
    Antonym: disestablishmentarianism
    • 1998, University of Oklahoma College of Law, American Indian Law Review:
      Jed Rubenfeld, who actually may not have been recycling a Boerne Court- rejected argument into a law review article,450 reasoned that RFRA indeed lacked constitutionality, but because of First Amendment antidisestablishmentarianism, and not the reasons offered by the Court.451
    • 2002, Angela Hague, David Lavery (credited as editors, but actually authors of the compiled fictional reviews), Teleparody: predicting/preventing the TV discourse of tomorrow:
      The establishmentarianism of Hatch's alliance-building strategy undermined by the disestablishmentarianism of Wiglesworth's treachery triggers an antidisestablishmentarianism in Hawk — but the negation of Wiglesworth's 'dis' coupled with the counter-negation of Hawk's 'anti' does not simply generate a synthetic affirmation of Hatch's 'establishmentarianism'. Instead, Hawk's antidisestablishmentarianism, like a cancerous wart on the end of the nose, is perched at the fuzzy border separating ontology from oncology, malignity from malignancy.
    • 2005 April 9, “Crowning nonsense”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      As we said yesterday, the case for antidisestablishmentarianism has never been more threadbare.

Translations

Trivia

Known as a superlatively long word, it is, with 28 letters and 12 syllables, probably the longest non-technical and non-contrived word in English. The jocular term floccinaucinihilipilification is one letter longer.

See also