Synonyms of giantism

giantism

noun

ˈjī-ən-ˌti-zəm 

as in magnitude

the quality or state of being very large

the American taste for giantism: big cars, big houses, big servings of food

Synonyms & Similar Words

• magnitude
• gigantism
• vastness
• hugeness
• immensity
• enormousness
• prodigiousness
• extensiveness
• massiveness
• bigness
• immenseness
• enormity
• largeness
• awesomeness
• vastitude
• greatness
• voluminousness
• grandness
• excessiveness
• stupendousness
• tremendousness
• boundlessness
• limitlessness
• weightiness
• grandiosity
• extremeness
• spaciousness
• capaciousness
• sizableness
• extravagance
• gaudiness
• commodiousness
• ampleness
• immoderacy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• minuteness
• smallness
• littleness
• diminutiveness
• tininess
• triviality
• puniness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of giantism

Brontotheres, the ancient North American ancestors of the horse, is a giantism outlier as—growing from around 40 pounds to four to five tons in 16 million years. — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023

In an especially mind-bending passage, Wengrow and Graeber show that the majority of Paleolithic tombs contained not grandees but individuals with physical anomalies including dwarfism, giantism, and spinal abnormalities. — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022

The researchers think the parrot evolved this way because of a phenomenon known as autapomorphic giantism, in which a member of an otherwise moderately sized group becomes humongous by taking over an empty ecological niche. — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019

The extraordinary success of the giant three-ring circus gave rise to other forms of exportable American giantism, such as amusement parks, department stores, and shopping malls. — Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017