as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
the gigantism that is this newest ocean liner is impossible to describe
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Recent Examples of gigantism
Surviving here isn’t easy, and finding a mate can be next to impossible—an isolation that has driven unique adaptations like deep-sea gigantism, slow metabolism and extraordinary reproductive strategies.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Its role as an apex predator points to a complex food chain where the availability of large prey could have driven the evolution of gigantism in marine snakes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
According to the researchers, gigantism appears several times in the evolutionary history of anurans, but this is one of the few species known to have both giant frogs and tadpoles.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In evolution, gigantism is the result of species evolving large body sizes relative to their small-bodied ancestors.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Its role as an apex predator points to a complex food chain where the availability of large prey could have driven the evolution of gigantism in marine snakes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
According to the researchers, gigantism appears several times in the evolutionary history of anurans, but this is one of the few species known to have both giant frogs and tadpoles.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In evolution, gigantism is the result of species evolving large body sizes relative to their small-bodied ancestors.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gigantism
Noun
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Porter said the results illuminate the magnitude of the groundwater crisis in the Southwest, which is particularly helpful for state officials and lawmakers.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
31 May 2025
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Ring While the United States Geological Survey stresses that factors like the distance from the earthquake, type of soil a building is built on and construction design are all key factors, damage begins to occur if an earthquake reaches somewhere between 4 or 5 magnitude.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Brontotheres, the ancient North American ancestors of the horse, is a giantism outlier as—growing from around 40 pounds to four to five tons in 16 million years.—
Darren Orf,
Popular Mechanics,
16 May 2023
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In an especially mind-bending passage, Wengrow and Graeber show that the majority of Paleolithic tombs contained not grandees but individuals with physical anomalies including dwarfism, giantism, and spinal abnormalities.—
Virginia Heffernan,
Wired,
11 July 2022
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The resulting Hubble Deep Field image revealed about 3,000 distant galaxies, offering humanity's first profound look into the universe's true immensity and revealing a cosmos teeming with galaxies, even at extreme distances.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The sheer immensity of the tent city is jaw-dropping, a hinterland oblivion of yurts and RVs, all stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see.—
Barrett Swanson,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Gigantism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gigantism. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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