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NOUN.

(mass noun)

An invented long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.

‘Pneumono­ultra­microscopic­silica­volcano­coniosis is a form of the illness pneumo­coni­osis, caused by the inhalation of a fine silica dust found in most volcanoes.’

More example sentences

‘Thus, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a disease of the lungs resulting from the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust’


Origin

1930s a word invented (probably by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers' League) in imitation of very long medical terms.