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8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
noun excessive largeness of stature
originFrom giant + -ism, coined in the mid 17th century. In the medical or biological sense of gigantism from the 1880s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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