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gigantomania

gigantomania 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.

Noun

gigantomania (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • 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.1998 August 12, Denis Staunton, “Haunted still”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • 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.2025 November 26, Vitali Vitaliev, “Small is beautiful”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 68

Origin of gigantomania

From giganto- + -mania.

Questions about gigantomania

What does gigantomania mean?
Gigantomania means 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.
What part of speech is gigantomania?
Gigantomania is a noun.

Words near gigantomania in the dictionary

  1. gigantological
  2. gigantologies
  3. gigantology
  4. gigantomachies
  5. gigantomachy
  6. gigantomania
  7. gigantomaniac
  8. gigantomastia
  9. gigantomasty
  10. gigantoprism
  11. gigantoprismatic

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