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an antepenult.
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Antepenultimate
has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells. |
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Word Origin & History
antepenultimate
1730, "the last but two," from antepenult (n.), 1610s, abbreviation of L. antepaenultima, from antepaenultimus, from ante "before" + paenultima, from paen "almost" + ultima "last" (see ultimate).
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