floccinaucinihilipilification

English - Turkish

Definition of floccinaucinihilipilification in English Turkish dictionary

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English - English

Definition of floccinaucinihilipilification in English English dictionary

The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

The categorizing of something that is useless or trivial

The action or habit of estimating something as worthless

{i} habit or action of judging or estimating something as worthless or having no value

The act or habit of describing or regarding something as worthless

Etymology

() A jocular coinage, apparently by students at Eton, combining a number of roughly synonymous Latin stems. Latin flocci, from floccus, a wisp or piece of wool + nauci, from naucum, a trifle + nihili, from the Latin pronoun, nihil (“nothing”) + pili, from pilus, a hair, something insignificant (all therefore having the sense of "pettiness" or "nothing") + -fication. "Flocci non facio" was a Latin expression of indifference, literally "I do not make a straw of...".