diff --git a/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/kysedate-tooltip-long-delay_2018-04-02-17-42.json b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/kysedate-tooltip-long-delay_2018-04-02-17-42.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..d3b6d554c33abf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/kysedate-tooltip-long-delay_2018-04-02-17-42.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+      "comment": "Adding a longer delay as an option to the tooltip comonent. Before there was only a medium (300ms) or zero (0ms) delay.",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+  "email": "kysedate@microsoft.com"
+}
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diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.scss b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.scss
index 0fd0f0032be80b..bf33ef670794a9 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.scss
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.scss
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
   &.hasMediumDelay {
     animation-delay: 300ms;
   }
+
+  &.hasLongDelay {
+    animation-delay: 500ms;
+  }
 }
 
 .content {
diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.tsx b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.tsx
index 0215bcbfd09b6d..e15232fa67a8e1 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.tsx
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.tsx
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ export class Tooltip extends BaseComponent<ITooltipProps, any> {
           AnimationClassNames.fadeIn200,
           styles.root,
           (delay === TooltipDelay.medium) && styles.hasMediumDelay,
+          (delay === TooltipDelay.long) && styles.hasLongDelay,
           (maxWidth !== null) && { maxWidth: maxWidth },
           calloutProps ? calloutProps.className : undefined,
           this.props.className
diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.types.ts b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.types.ts
index fe7a97f8ebfec9..f57a2d0ca9f31e 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.types.ts
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Tooltip/Tooltip.types.ts
@@ -65,5 +65,6 @@ export interface ITooltipProps extends React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement | Too
 
 export enum TooltipDelay {
   zero = 0,
-  medium = 1
+  medium = 1,
+  long = 2
 }
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