giantism
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- noun
- /ˈdʒaɪəntɪzəm/
- Specialized
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gigantismo
- It used to be called giantism, and most people, of course, are in the range of height and appendage length.
It used to be called giantism, and most people, of course, are in the range of height and appendage length.
- It used to be called giantism, and most people, of course, are in the range of height and appendage length.
Examples
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Giantism can result from an overactive forward lobe of the pituitary process, you know.
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Countering the trend toward giantism in universities is well-managed Oklahoma City University, with only 4,660 students, of which 2,400 are undergraduates.
Academic text (1996) -
From a certain perspective, at least, modern technology often looks like madness, or like nonhuman giantism, to use Heidegger's concept (Heidegger, 1977, p. 135).
Academic text (1997) -
Natural giantism seeks "to unite the great individual with the landscape in a grandiose monumental form, so that it will appear superhuman and overwhelming" (Warnke 1994, 145).
Academic text (2005) -
The doctor explained that the patient's giantism was caused by excess growth hormone production.
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Children with giantism often experience significant health challenges related to their rapid growth.
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Due to giantism, he grew to over seven feet tall, attracting attention everywhere he went.
Synonyms
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A condition where someone grows much taller and bigger than normal because of too much growth hormone
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word giantism comes from the everyday word giant, meaning 'very large person', plus the ending -ism, which marks a 'condition', so giantism is the condition of growing much larger than normal, usually because the body makes too much growth hormone.