as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
the gigantism that is this newest ocean liner is impossible to describe
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Recent Examples of gigantism
Cut off from outside populations, Rome’s freshwater crabs developed a form of gigantism.
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Krista Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
There were several pictures of people suffering from gigantism, a defect that makes the pituitary gland produce excess growth hormone.
—Jane Smiley
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
This dramatic transformation is among the most extreme cases of island gigantism in birds, likely unfolding in under two million years as the eagle adapted to New Zealand’s ecosystem.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
The outlet added that he was diagnosed with gigantism, a medical condition that involves the overproduction of growth hormone.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Krista Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
There were several pictures of people suffering from gigantism, a defect that makes the pituitary gland produce excess growth hormone.
—Jane Smiley
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
This dramatic transformation is among the most extreme cases of island gigantism in birds, likely unfolding in under two million years as the eagle adapted to New Zealand’s ecosystem.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
The outlet added that he was diagnosed with gigantism, a medical condition that involves the overproduction of growth hormone.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gigantism
Noun
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Right now, the comet is hovering just below magnitude +6, according to the Comet Observation database, so already technically on the edge of naked-eye visibility under very dark night skies.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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The magnitude of that benefit could have significant implications for how widely the drug will be used, and how the company’s stock will react to its late-stage data.—
Angelica Peebles,
CNBC,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Its depiction of Earth's blue marble rising in the distance above the barren lunar surface illustrated how fragile our world really is amidst the vastness of space, and how, despite our differences, all of us share one planet.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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The spatial vastness of Malevich is here reduced to extreme flatness.—
Katherine Rochester,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2026
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Nowhere in the vestiges of what was once the sprawl of corporate hugeness known as The General Electric Company are there signs that Katharine Blodgett's laboratory notebooks still exist.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
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Like Phish or Taylor Swift or The Dead, 21P have created a universe for their fans that is a self-sustaining mechanism, even if the hugeness of it doesn’t always translate into huge chart success.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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The immensity of joining the franchise meant that choosing a jersey number wasn’t something Durbin took lightly.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Shaboozey Shaboozey was in awe of the immensity of his RodeoHouston debut and mentioned it throughout the show.—
Joey Guerra,
Houston Chronicle,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Gigantism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gigantism. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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