Can't really account for it, but long words that look like assemblages of shorter English words fused together, have always had some fascination. Words like nevertheless and notwithstanding.
Perhaps weshould makea habitofit and runtogether evenmore English words toreduce thenumber ofwordsin sentences andtightenupour language...?
'contemporaneous' also a word I like, particually since I discovered contemporaneous decisions
but my favourite is:melancholic
–adjective
1. disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
2. of, pertaining to, or affected with melancholia.
... I think I am recovered one
I like Torschlusspanik. It's German and means closing door panic. e.g. the Wall Street crash where investors all try to sell at once sending shares crashing.
I have already said my favourite English word, (synchronicity) but may I add Stumpfgleis? It is a type of Railway platform, but for trains that terminate at a station, rather than passing through. Reading has one, IIRC, and Swindon. I do not know what they are called in English.
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