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
There were several pictures of people suffering from gigantism, a defect that makes the pituitary gland produce excess growth hormone.
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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
Its role as an apex predator points to a complex food chain where the availability of large prey could have driven the evolution of gigantism in marine snakes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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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
Its role as an apex predator points to a complex food chain where the availability of large prey could have driven the evolution of gigantism in marine snakes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gigantism
Noun
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The drop in bond yields is notable though the magnitude of the decline to 4% on the 10-year in recent days is not dramatic.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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Only a sociopath or a sadist could tell a lie of this magnitude, but again, such broad characters are par for the course in shows like this.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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Our Universe may be full of stars, galaxies, and a cosmic web of large-scale structure, all separated by the vastness of empty space between them, but it wasn’t born that way.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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Director Reinaldo Marcus Green keeps his camera low to emphasize the vastness of the tennis world bearing down on Venus, all while Richard (Will Smith) watches on, ever enigmatically, from the tunnels.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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To appreciate the full moral weight and dramatic immensity of these moments means grasping the significance of the moments leading up to them—and the ones that come afterward.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
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Not even the best paintings or photographs can ever trace its immensity; only fractions can be glimpsed and never held for long.—
Tom Zoellner,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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“Gigantism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gigantism. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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