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Sesquipedalian Obscurantism

Sesquipedalian n. One who is inordinately infatuated with polysyllabic obfuscation, preferring never to employ a less complicated syntactic arrangement of descriptive words when there exists a single expressive unit that amalgamates the multiplicity of morphemes1 comprising the simpler phrase. Among the manifold objectives of multisyllabic, holophrastic2 verbalism are those of: rendering the author's meaning indisputably precise yet simultaneously incomprehensible; demonstrating through superior orthography and lexical awareness that the writer is manifestly more erudite than the reader; disempowering intellectual challenge to the proponent's argument by using logomachinations3 to divert discussion to the establishment of the opponent's comprehension of the vocabulary as opposed to addressing the factual import of the treatise which, upon analysis, may well prove amphigorous4. The obscurantist5 sesquipedalian is likely to compound the reader's difficulties by indulging in glossosynthesis6, thus enabling the author to dismiss all opposing views as ultracrepidarious7. In other words, a sesquipedalian is one who would call a spade a manuo-pedal excavationary implement8.

1 Linguistic units of relatively stable meaning that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts, such as whole words like god, word-forming elements like -ly as found in godly, or grammatical inflections like the plural ending -s on gods. [Source: Reader's Digest Universal Dictionary].
2 Single words that can be used instead of a whole phrase, or that convey a set of ideas.
3 Arguments about meanings of words.
4 Text which appears at first to be meaningful, but upon examination is found to be nonsense.
5 Person with a tendency to oppose or impede investigation or the progress of knowledge.
6 Invention of nonsense words.
7 Acting or speaking beyond the sphere of actual knowledge or experience; ignorant criticism.
8 A spade.