giantism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

giant +‎ -ism, coined in the mid 17th century. In the medical or biological sense of gigantism from the 1880s.

Noun[edit]

giantism (countable and uncountable, plural giantisms)

  1. Synonym of gigantism