• silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I think this is how you split it:

    Pneumono-ultra-microscopic-silico-volcano-coni-osis

    • Pneumono = lungs
    • Ultra = very
    • Microscopic = very small
    • Silico = stone (silica)
    • Volcano = …
    • Coni = dust
    • osis = medical condition

    Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m hearing this term for the first time so I might very well be off. Though I will say I am German and we do love our compound words, so I’m fairly confident this is at least getting the gist of things

    So to conclude I think this just means “medical condition in the lungs caused by very fine volcanic dust”

    How the -ism suffix would change the meaning, I’m not sure. I don’t think it would mean denial of said medical condition, though.