antidisestablishmentarianism
English edit
Etymology edit
From anti- + disestablishmentarian + -ism.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæntiˌdɪsɪˌstæblɪʃmənˈtɛəɹiəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæntaɪˌdɪsɪˌstæblɪʃmənˈtɛɚiəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ˌæn.ti-/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: an‧ti‧dis‧es‧tab‧lish‧ment‧ar‧i‧an‧ism
Noun edit
antidisestablishmentarianism (usually uncountable, plural antidisestablishmentarianisms)
- 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. [from 20th c.]
- 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[1], →ISSN:
- As we said yesterday, the case for antidisestablishmentarianism has never been more threadbare.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
philosophy opposed to separating church and state
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Trivia edit
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.