sesquipedality
English
Etymology
sesquipedal + -ity
Pronunciation
Noun
sesquipedality (countable and uncountable, plural sesquipedalities)
- An instance or condition of being sesquipedalian.
- 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 93:
- Imagine to yourself a little, squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant in the Horse-Guards.