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ˌflocciˌnauciˌnihiliˌpilifiˈcation humorous.
[f. L. floccī, naucī, nihilī, pilī words signifying ‘at a small price’ or ‘at nothing’ enumerated in a well-known rule of the Eton Latin Grammar + -fication.]
The action or habit of estimating as worthless.
1741Shenstone Let. xxii. Wks. 1777 III. 49, I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money. 1816Southey in Q. Rev. XIV. 334. 1829 Scott Jrnl. 18 Mar., They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccipaucinihilipilification [sic, here and in two other places] of all that can gratify the outward man.
Also flocciˈnaucical a., inconsiderable, trifling. flocciˈnaucity, a matter of small consequence.
1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 38 The Poet used them significantly, and never intended them to bear a flocci⁓naucical signification. 1829― in Q. Rev. XXXIX. 108 The flocci-naucities to which so much importance is attached. |