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  • noun hugeness

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gigantic +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • One of the ideas of the economics ist alles boys (economics is all boys) has been that corporate giganticism, whether achieved by mergers, buyouts, internal growth or howsomever, represents a desirable triumph of .... something.

    The Bigger the Company, the More Disastrous the Mistake. 2008

  • One of the ideas of the economics ist alles boys (economics is all boys) has been that corporate giganticism, whether achieved by mergers, buyouts, internal growth or howsomever, represents a desirable triumph of .... something.

    The Bigger The Company, The More Disastrous The Mistake 2008

  • I began thinking about the values people must assign to themselves, and believe in despite all the evidence, in order to cope with the giganticism of Metropolis.

    Amagamalin Street Suite Robert Hunter 1984

  • In addition-though this was incidental-the apparent giganticism involved was a useful piece of misdirection.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

  • It's a mode of sloppy giganticism he's suffered from ever since.

    Slate Magazine Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • It can be argued that just as Sebald's self-imposed exile from Bavaria became the emotional lodestone with which he attracted his accounts of other, more deeply traumatised refugees, so his wandering through a contemporary world at once jumbled with the hypertrophy of civilisation - the architectural historian Jacques Austerlitz's hated giganticism - and curiously devoid of its citizens is itself a metaphor for the Holocaust.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • More specifically, any sensible point, fantasies of giganticism aside.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • The mile spacing induces bigger arterials and retail giganticism - Disconnecting neighbourhood centres a quarter-mile from the main movement economy kills off their retail viability - especially when traffic is kept secondary arterial network needs to function to reduce arterial road size

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows CNU17 2009

  • It can be argued that just as Sebald's self-imposed exile from Bavaria became the emotional lodestone with which he attracted his accounts of other, more deeply traumatised refugees, so his wandering through a contemporary world at once jumbled with the hypertrophy of civilisation - the architectural historian Jacques Austerlitz's hated giganticism - and curiously devoid of its citizens is itself a metaphor for the Holocaust.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • It can be argued that just as Sebald's self-imposed exile from Bavaria became the emotional lodestone with which he attracted his accounts of other, more deeply traumatised refugees, so his wandering through a contemporary world at once jumbled with the hypertrophy of civilisation - the architectural historian Jacques Austerlitz's hated giganticism - and curiously devoid of its citizens is itself a metaphor for the Holocaust.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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