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giantism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables
gi-antism
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of gigantism.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

giantisms (plural)

Synonyms

gigantism overgrowth

Questions

What does giantism mean?
Synonym of gigantism.
Where does giantism come from?
From giant + -ism, coined in the mid 17th century. In the medical or biological sense of gigantism from the 1880s.

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