ventilationist

[ven-tl-ey-shuh-nist]

ven·ti·la·tion·ist

[ven-tl-ey-shuh-nist]
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or advocating the ventilation of emotions: a ventilationist approach to dealing with anger.
noun
2.
an advocate or practitioner of emotional ventilation.

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Ventilationist has a plethora of syllables.
So is sesquipedalianism. Does it mean:
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
given to using long words.

Origin:
ventilation + -ist
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