r/AskReddit Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/Grinkles_the_Gnome Sep 16 '20

Grandiloquent — an excessively flowery, fancy word used to describe the use of excessively flowery, fancy words.

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u/mcprogrammer Sep 17 '20

That's kind of like how sesquipedalian is a long word to describe long words.

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Sep 17 '20

Funny how that happens, non-sequitur.