->''"Church and state are like light in a prism: \\
Far more beautiful after the schism. \\
Some take issue with this, \\
And support anti[[MidwordRhyme dis-]] \\
establishmentarianism."''
-->-- ''Advertising/BurmaShave''

"Anti­dis­establish­ment­arian­ism", as a word, technically refers to a specific political movement which would have opposed removing the Church of England from its status as the "official" church of Ireland. (Website/{{Wikipedia}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism has some information]], if you're curious.) A more modern definition is that it refers to the movement to dissolve the legal separation between church and state.[[note]]or sometimes as opposing the removal of the C of E from its status as the official church of England itself.[[/note]] That's what the Burma Shave quote was referring to. This is not about that movement, however. This is about the word.

"Anti-", meaning against, "dis-", meaning to negate, "establishment", a structure, "-arianism", a sect or schism surrounding said establishment. Taken together, it means "A position counter to dismantling the establishment". Since that's a double-negative, it can be generalized even further to simply "pro-establishment".

You see, this infamously long-winded word is more famous for being long, unwieldy, and taking a heck of a long time to type. If anybody needs a go-to big word, this is the one they usually pull out. (Especially if it's at a SpellingBee.) It's not even [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English the longest word in the English language, though it is the longest one that is neither a scientific term nor specifically coined to make a huge word]]. Why this word? While it's long, it's really just "establish" with a bunch of fairly standard prefixes and suffixes tacked on. It's not even hard to spell, since it's spelled exactly as it's pronounced, without any of English's 1001 special spelling exceptions or oddities.[[note]](You might note it still contains two different ways to pronounce the letter "a"; three to pronounce "s", in one of which it is combined with another letter; depending on whether one is speaking British or American, two to three ways to pronounce "i", the third of which is as a diphthong; and two different ways to pronounce "e"; all within the same word. And a couple of the vowel sounds are written with a different letter in different places. But by the standards of English, that's "spelled exactly as it's pronounced", [[SincerityMode seriously]].)[[/note]] Possibly because it's [[InherentlyFunnyWords Inherently Funny.]] A favorite form of SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. For another gag about long words, see ScaryScienceWords.

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[[folder:Advertising ]]
* Netflix runs a series of radio ads based on a fictional quiz show with borderline {{Calvinball}}-esque NonSequitur answers. One of the questions is "What word comes next in this sequence? Crustacean, kumquat?" and the answer, of course, is "Antidisestablishmentarianism".
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A Dynomutt story (from Marvel) had the title robot dog going off to investigate [[ItMakesSenseInContext a gingerbread man that comes to menacing life]]:
-->'''Dynomutt:''' I'll be back before you can say "antidisestablishmentarianism"...provided you can actually ''say'' "antidisestablishmentarianism"...
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[[folder:Literature ]]
* J.R. Ward's [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackDaggerBrotherhood The Black Dagger Brotherhood series]] has Rhage use this word whilst describing his attraction to the female protagonist of the second novel.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}:'' "I will return before you can say Antidisestablishmentarianism." Since the "you" in question is [[UpperClassTwit Prince George]], he's right. Although he needs two days.
--> Anti-distinctly-minty...
* In an episode of ''Series/BigTimeRush'', during a montage of the boys answering many arbitrary questions, Logan replies solely with the word.
* In an episode of ''Series/SecondNoah'', there is a scene where the 2-3 year old Ben wants the twins to let him up into the tree house. All he can say is "Me up!" One of the twins agrees to let him up if he can say "Antidisestablishmentarianism".
* ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' episode "The $99,000 Answer''
-->'''Alice:''' Spell "antidisestablishmentarianism".\\
'''Ralph:''' I'll spell it. ''[pause]'' I'll spell it!\\
'''Alice:''' Well? Go ahead.\\
'''Ralph:''' ''[agitated]'' I'll spell it when you give me $16,000 for spelling it!\\
'''Alice:''' ''[disbelieving]'' Sixteen thousand dollars for spelling it?! I'll give you ''$32,000'' if you can SAY it!
* In a segment on Victorian school punishments in the second ''Series/HorribleHistories'' TV series, one boy was being punished for misspelling antidisestablishmentarianism.
* Owned by a student during a spelling bee in ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' when the grifter of the team was trying to get the student to fail and get the child the team who needed to win win.
* On ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Drew asks Mimi to take a letter and begins with this word, followed by [[Film/MaryPoppins "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"]].
* Classical example in ''[[Series/YesMinister Yes, Prime Minister]]'', in which SesquipedalianLoquaciousness is a RunningGag. Sir Humphrey tells PM Hacker that a nominee for bishop in the Church of England is a disestablishmentarianist.
--> '''Hacker:''' What?
* One episode of ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' focused on WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, including a scene of a psychological examination conducted by Ludwig von Drake. Von Drake starts [[WordAssociationTest a word-association exercise]] with "antidesestablishmentarianism", but can't pronounce it after several tries, and simply rips off the first letter and starts with "A" instead.
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* Other than the chorus, the final word in Music/LemonDemon's [[WordSaladLyrics Word Disassociation]] is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FbfSSdxhI "Antidisestablishmentarianism."]]
* Music/{{Eminem}} uses this in his song 'Almost Famous' in reference to the word length being similar to how well endowed he is.
* Norwegian folk singer Music/OysteinSunde has a song called "Overbuljongterningpakkmesterassistent". He did invent the word, but it's a legitimate word according to the rules of the Norwegian language, and means something like "Senior bouillon-cube sorting master's assistant".
* Music/DJJazzyJeffAndTheFreshPrince's take of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" for the Disneyland 35th Anniversary Celebration has Will Smith mentioning "antidesestablishmentarianism" being a long word that doesn't have the same ring as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
* Music/DukeEllington uses an extended form, "antidisestablishmentarianismist", in the song "You're Just an Old Antidisestablishmentarianismist". However, it appears to mean "one hates love".
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* [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/apr/09/monarchy.guardianleaders An editorial in the Guardian]] about some aspect of the Church of England, which included the sentence "[[ConfusingMultipleNegatives The case for antidisestablishmentarianism has never been more threadbare.]]" Perfectly appropriate to the context, but you just knew the writer was hugging himself for having managed to get it in.
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* In one podcast on Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow [later adapted as part of the animated series], Ricky and Steve ask Karl what book he would choose if he were on "Desert Island Disks", with Karl choosing a dictionary. Karl, Being [[CloudCuckooLander Karl]] tries to justify this by saying having a better vocabulary would be helpful when he is rescued.
-->'''Karl''': If I sort of say something with a big word that I can't think of right now, they'll go "oh, who's that, he sounds like he knows his stuff".
-->'''Steve [as Karl]''': Yoo-hoo! Antidisestablishmentarianism!\\
'''Ricky [as captain of the rescue ship]''': Get him on this boat now.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'', there is a chart for intelligence as it applies to languages, including limits on the vocabulary a character is capable of. The highest vocabulary limit is exemplified with "Antidisestablishmentarianism".
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free'', upon inspecting Strong Bad's large collection of "Edgarware" titles, which includes "anti-virus", "anti-spyware", and "anti-disestablishmentarianism".
* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' uses Floccinaucinihilipilification as a name for one of its final bosses.
* The brain in ''VideoGame/SkylandersImaginators'' uses Antidisestablishmentarianism to prove to kaos that he is extremely knowledgeable.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Suzy Gee from ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}'' starts an organization called "Citizens Opposed to Antidisestablishmentarianism." The name can, with some generosity, be said to fit - she's trying to stop a bill that would [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything explicitly tie marriage to religious faith]].
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* One series on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom (largely a parody of the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' films) featured pirates commanding a ship called the ''Pseudoantidisestablishmentarian''. The logic being that by the time the enemy lookout has finished yelling the ship's name to his captain, they're already halfway through the boarding action.
* ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'' tries to use this and another long English word for ''names''.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* In the Creator/DanielThrasher video "[[https://youtu.be/5rdbCRA17Ys When you have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia]]", there is a mentioned character named [[PunnyName Ann T. Disestablishmentarianism]]. Also, the T in her name stands for thermoluminescence.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', they had a spelling bee, and TheSmartGuy tried to spell this word during a practice session. His dad recommended he skip down to "antidote".
* Showed up in the ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' episode "For Letter or Worse". In the beginning of the episode, the designated nerds (the [[PunnyName Brainy Bunch]]) guessed this word from the blanks without even trying to get a letter before guessing. They just learned it was the longest word and said it (possibly not so hard a task given the lack of words of that number of letters in English). Shaggy and Scooby then tried to find the word in a dictionary.
* This also showed up in an ImagineSpot during an episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Doug}}''. Doug misspells "bologna" in a spelling bee and gets laughed at, while [[TheAce Chalky]] flawlessly rattles off "antidisestablishmentarianism" and is applauded.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JakersTheAdventuresOfPiggleyWinks'', one of Piggley's grandsons tricked the other out of dessert with the riddle "Antidisestablishmentarianism is a long word. Think I can spell it?" He spelled it "I-T".
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': One episode has Major Monogram try to disguise a television transmission meant for Perry the Platypus as a telethon to find the cure for antidisestablishmentarianism. Lawrence is fooled, though he does wonder "I thought it was more an ideological stance than a disease?"
* One of the [[EyeCatch bumpers]] of ''{{WesternAnimation/Recess}}'' involved Gretchen saying "We'll be back before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism".
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', "One of a Kind", look closely: [[http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w80/Zthese6/OoaK02a/OoaK02a-177.png the test]] Danny receives back has "antidisestablishment" as the entire first line.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' episode "Garage Band" had Robot's friend Mitch try to write "antidisestablishmentarianism" on his guitar after deciding that it's a cool word. He then asks "How do you spell that?" The remainder of the episode shows that he figured out the spelling and finished writing the word.
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' where Twister has to spell "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis".
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' had the character of the Robot Turkey Ghost of Christmas Past From the Future cite "antidisestablishmentarianism" as one of the outcomes of the great chicken uprising lead by Carl.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' episode "President Evil", a teacher had written "ANTIDISE" on the board when she was alerted to a [[BoysHaveCooties cootie]] outbreak in her class.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Huey, Dewey, and Louie use this at one point in "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!". Despite being "unique snowflakes", they momentarily SpeakInUnison, causing them to say it in an attempt to stop doing so.
* In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E7HorsePlay Horse Play]]" of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', this is one of Raspberry Beret's guesses when Princess Celestia does charades.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' episode "To Bee or Not To Bee" begins with Ian Wazselewski being asked to spell this word and failing spectacularly.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' special "Rodent Rebellion" had one of the victims of the rats robbing the town being asked what was stolen from her, with one of the objects mentioned being a trophy she earned for spelling "antidisestablishmentarianism" correctly.
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[[folder:Other]]
* Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a similar sort of word.
** At one time, Disney had sing-a-long videoes put out with intros to each song by Professor Ludwig Van Drake. The cartoon before the sing-a-long to Supercalifragilisticexplialidocious involves a gag about antidisestablishmentarianism not being the word he was thinking of.
** The Sherman Brothers also came up with "[[WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome Fundamentalfrienddependability]]."
* Shows up in ''Creator/DaveBarry's Money Secrets'' when showing the proper way to write a resume:
-->"Results-oriented multitasking hands-on team-building problem-solving take-charge self-starter with enterprise-wide cross-functional productivity-enhancement management-specific capabilities including all phases of conceptualization, implementation, integration, augmentation, allocation, irrigation, fermentation, lactation, plantation, and antidisestablishmentarianism served over field greens with a balsamic vinaigrette."
* In Wales, there is the town of ''Llanfairpwllgwyngyll'' (20 characters long), which was lengthened to ''Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch'' in the 1860's which, with 58 characters, is the longest place name in Europe. The sesquipedalian 58-character form means "St. Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave" in the Welsh language.
* The longest place name in the world is a hill named ''Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu'' in New Zealand with 85 characters, which roughly translates as "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one" in the Maori language, with longer variants known as ''Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­urehaeaturipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu'' (92 characters) and ''Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-haumai-tawhiti-ure-haea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu'' (105 characters)[[note]] The extra-long, rough, and coarse Maori translation of the 105-letter word is "The hill of the nose-flute playing by Tamatea – who was blown hither from afar, had a slit penis, grazed his knees climbing mountains, fell on the earth, and encircled the land – to his beloved one".[[/note]]
* In the United States, the longest place name on record is Lake ''Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg'', which, in Nipmuc Algonquian, roughly translates to "Fishing Place at the Boundaries -- Neutral Meeting Grounds" or "lake divided by islands", located near Webster, MA. Locals looking to {{troll}} outsiders will say it means "You fish on ''your'' side of the lake, we'll fish on ''our'' side of the lake, and nobody will fish in the middle".
* The Elizabethan form of this was the Latin word ''honorificabilitudinitatibus'' (literally, "to those things in the state of being able to achieve honours.")
* The Dutch variant is ''Hottentottententententoonstelling'', Khoikhoi tents exhibition. It can be expanded to, among others, ''Hottentottententententoonstellingsterrein'' (Khoikhoi tents exhibition terrain).
** It's easy to make large words in Dutch anyway, as most normal words remove spacing if used in an adjective way, so you can just stick words together that have barely any significance to one another. See ''Fietsventieldopjesfabrieksmedewerkersconventiespreker'' (Bike Valve Cap Factory Employee Convention Speaker), which are all words separated by spaces in English. ''Hottentottententententoonstelling'' is often used in a "she sells sea shells by the shore" way though.
** Canadian Icelanders in Gimli have their own similar variant - [[http://www.icelandicfestival.com Islendingadagurinn.]] Germanic languages have a tendency to mash words together, with strange and lengthy results.
* The popular (yet notoriously hard to perform if you don't know German) anecdote written by Polish poet and satirist Julian Tuwim in 30s is centered on building the word "Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterbeutelrattenlattengitterkofferattentäter" ("Assassin of the Khoikhoi mother of the stuttering fool closed in the wicker cage for holding kangaroos").
** In actual Polish, the go-to words so long it's funny tend to be "konstantynopolitańczykówna" and "konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka", both meaning roughly "the little daughter of a man from Constantinople". The former is proper literary language, the latter is artificially stretched by an excessive use of diminutives.
* In Switzerland, the captain of the company driving steamships on the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake of the four forest counties) is called a Vierwaldstätterseedampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftkapitän. And since German allows you to add any number of nouns to that word, you can extend it to just about any length you like.
* Another popular go-to long word is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (a lung disease more commonly known as silicosis) frequently lauded as the longest word in the English language.
* Hungarian has "széttöredezettségmentesítőtleníttethetetlenkedhetnétek" (≈ "you all could perform acts of not being able to be rid of defragmentation tools [which would cause loss of integrity]").
** Not to mention "megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért" (≈ "for your acts of undefilability").
* The Portuguese equivalent is "Anticonstitucionalissimamente" ("very anticonstitutionally").
** "Anticonstitutionnellement" is the longest word in French language.
* The way Russian numerals are formed allows for pretty long compound words, like "тысячавосьмисотпятидесятидвухмиллиметровый" (''tysachavos'misotpyatidesyatidvukhmillimetrovyi'', 1852 millimeters long/wide).
** This works in other languages too, for example Czech: tisíciosmistypadesátidvoumilimetrový
* There used to be on Website/{{Wikipedia}} instructions for adding elements to this word, producing "propseudocontraneoantidisestablishmentarianistically" ("in a manner favouring false opposition to a new form of antidisestablishmentarianism").
* Floccinaucinihilipilification is [[CausticCritic "the act or habit of calling something worthless"]]. It's actually one letter ''longer'' than the TropeNamer.
* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a coinage that supposedly means [[{{Irony}} "the fear of long words."]]
* The longest word in the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]] in the original Hebrew is וְהָאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִים (''vehaakhshdarpenim'', "and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap satraps."]]) While far more modest in length, it’s often used as a nice tidbit of trivia.
* Some people have argued that the longest word in English is the full chemical name of the protein Titin, which is 189, 819 letters. However many linguists have argued that it is actually a ''verbal formula'' and thus not a word (it's kind of like renaming the Big Mac ''Two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions–on-a-sesame-seed-bun'').
* The Finnish language is well known for almost endless possibilities on combining long compound words, such as ''Pientalokolmivaihevaihtovirtakilowattituntimittari'' (Small house three-phase alternative current kilowatt-hour meter) or ''Lentokonesuihkuturbiiniapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas'' (Aircraft turbojet engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student). Those are actual, but seldom used, words.
** In most agglutinative languages, like Finnish, there's no theoretical upper limit to how many words you can put together to form a compound word (in a syntactically and even semantically valid way). Words that are in ''actual'' use tend to not be so excessively long, for obvious reasons. Perhaps one of the longest words in actual use, although technical, is "kolmivaihevaihtovirtakilowattituntimittari" (three-phase alternate current kilowatt-hour meter), which you can see in many electricity meters.
* Siimilarly, the officially longest Swedish word is nordvästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten, meaning roughly "the work needed to prepare a statement for a debate on the support system needed for maintenance of airborne reconnaissance simulator equipment for the northwestern coast artillery".
* The go-to longest French word is "anticonstitutionnellement" ("in a way that disrespects the constitution"). It is often used in jokes and media as the very equivalent to the English word this page is about.
** Since 2017, it has been replaced by "intergouvernementalisations".
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