floccinaucinihilipilification

n. <谑>(对荣华富贵等的)轻蔑

发音

UK /ˌflɒksɪˌnɔːsɪˌnɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/
UK /ˌflɒksɪˌnɔːkɪˌnɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/
US /ˌflɒksɪˌnɑsɪˌn(a)ɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

词形变化

floccinaucinihilipilifications 复数 floccinaucinihilipilifications

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.

    把某东西看作是无价值的

    可数 幽默 不可数

词源

From Latin floccus (“a wisp”) + naucum (“a trifle”) + nihilum (“nothing”) + pilus (“a hair”) + -fication. A jocular coinage, apparently by pupils at Eton College, combining a number of Latin word stems. The word was inspired by a line present in various editions of William Lily's (c. 1468–1522) Latin grammars published around the 17th–19th centuries (including the Eton Latin Grammar), in which some nouns commonly used in the genitive case with some verbs like pendo and facio are listed, which express evaluating something as worthless or as previously mentioned; see the reference.

来源：wiktionary