What is the word for a person who likes to use big words?

Sesquipedalian?

I understood that a sequipedalian WAS a long word, specifically one
that was 1.5 feet long.  I'm always amused at the pun involved over
whether it is linear feet or metrical feet.

On digging a little, I find that I don't quite have it right. 
Sesquipedalian is an adjective describing long words, but there is a
less common usage as a name for a person who uses such words, so full
marks to nominus-ga.

I see that there is an affliction called sesquipedaliaphobia (the fear
of long words) so maybe there is also such a thing as a
sequipedaliophile.

Hi brookiemb,

Sesquipedalianist
or 
Hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist

"Somebody who uses long words is a sesquipedalianist, and this style
of writing is sesquipedalianism. The noun sesquipedality means
?lengthiness?. If such words are not enough, there?s always
hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist for someone who enjoys using really
long words."

World Wide Words 
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ses1.htm


Best regards,
Rainbow

I like the The Isaac Hayes' version:  "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000ZGO/ref=m_art_li_3/103-6125808-0243819?v=glance&s=music

Sounds good so far, but I would just opt for "pedant", though there is
certainly a sort of pleasing harmony in using a long word like
sesquipedalian to refer to a user of long words.

Just to introduce a tangent into the dialogue:

The notion of using a long word to describe a long word (and similar
concepts) was dealt with by Douglas Hofstadter in GEB
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465026567/102-6487802-4271340).
 He suggests that the term "autological" be applied to words that
describe themselves, like "pentasyllabic", and "awkwardnessful".  As a
complement, he coins "heterological".  He then asks "Is
'heterological' heterological?"

It's a great book!

HI all, 
Pedants are pedantic, plodding, not necessarily using long words, just
explaining things in more detail than listeners want  - if they don't
already know.
See:  only "necessarily" has five syllables  - and I could have said "always". ;)

The esteemed commentator, myoarin-ga, seems intent on obfuscating the
lexical richness of the definitional qualities of the aforementioned
vocabularization, which I can only construe to be indicitive of his or
her well-intentioned but ultimately capricious attempts at pedagogical
and heuristical elaboration of the pedestrian terminology with which
we are confronted in the normalized process of sociocommunication
occuring, somewhat teleologically, in this present solipsitic
exchange, a process which, I must add, is phenomonologically abstruse
with respect to any normalized, inherent attributes of the term.

Q.E.D

very nice pafalafa

I didn't say, imply or infer that Pafalafa-ga was a pedant, but he
sure can use the long words. Wow! I am a he, to keep in words of one
... what do you call them?

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