Sesquipedality

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ËŒsÉ›skwɪpɪˈdælÉ™ti/

Origin

From sesquipedalian.

Full definition of sesquipedality

Noun

1. An instance or condition of being sesquipedalian.
• 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 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.