noun
Etymology
Origin of giantism
Example Sentences
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Altogether it provides an indelible view of the relentless giantism of 21st-century industry and its tendencies to ruin, overbuild, waste and pollute.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
Furthermore, the Komodo dragon almost certainly isn’t an example of island giantism.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 5, 2014
For more than half a century he has railed against the gracelessness and alienating giantism of housing developments.
From Time Magazine Archive
"NASA is obsessed with giantism," contends Robert Park, director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Congenital Hypertrophy of the Fingers.—This is a form of local giantism affecting one or more digits, and involving all the tissues.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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