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giantism

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from γίγας
  2. derived from gigās
  3. derived from *gagās✻
  4. derived from geant
  5. inherited from geaunt
  6. suffixed as giantism — “giant + ism”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of gigantism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA