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floccinaucinihilipilification < flocci- a tuft of wool or bit of lint + nauci- a trifle + nihili- nothing + pili- a hair + fic < facere make + ation the act of: "the act of making worthless."
B.K. Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject. He works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante, and a layabout, at least in spirit.
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The etymology for the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" has more meaning than the Mac OSX dictionary gives it credit, and that makes it almost worthless. :-)
floccinaucinihilipilification < flocci- a tuft of wool or bit of lint + nauci- a trifle + nihili- nothing + pili- a hair + fic < facere make + ation the act of: "the act of making worthless."
I think it was the narrator of the Verbal Advantage series that learned me that word, and IIRC explained that it was used in the sense that something was worthless as navel lint. [FWIW, I could just be remembering a false memory.]
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