Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1920 — Longest Word in Dictionary. [ARTICLE]

Longest Word in Dictionary.

According to Bailey’s dictionary, the longest word in the English language is honorificabilltudlnlty, which has 22 letter* But, in “Love’s Labor Lost,* act IV, scene 1. the same word, meaning honorableness, occurs tn an even longer form —honortflcebilitudlnltattbu* These words are now obsolete and are only met with tn old play* The longest words likely to occur, in the ordinary course, are dlsproportlonableness „ and Incomprehensibilltie* >oth of which contain >1 letter*