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Is there another really big word for “fear of really big words”?

Is there another really big word for “fear of really big words”?

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia — fear of long words. Hippopoto- “big” due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word hippopotamus (though this is derived as hippo- “horse” compounded with potam-os “river”, so originally meaning “river horse”; according to the Oxford English, hippopotamine has been construed as large since 1847, so this coinage is reasonable); -monstr- is from Latin words meaning “monstrous”, -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel; -sesquipedali- comes from “sesquipedalian” meaning a long word (literally “a foot and a half long” in Latin), -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel, and -phobia means “fear”. Note: This was mentioned on the first episode of Brainiac Series Five as one of Tickle’s Teasers.
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Bella Black Rose
Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words
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M K
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia
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