gigantomania
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An obsession with the production of works on a very large scale, such as huge buildings, factories, weapons, or social engineering schemes; such production itself.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The issue entered the election campaign when Schroeder's shadow culture minister, Michael Naumann, compared the memorial designs to the gigantomania of Hitler's achitect, Albert Speer. He said that none of his American Jewish friends were in favour of the memorial and that it should be cancelled."
- "It was, most likely, just a spontaneous - and often subconscious - protest against the officially cultivated gigantomania, which in reality was but an excuse for shortages and inefficiency. "Big is beautiful!" the Soviet propaganda kept insisting, but we refused to believe it."