gigantomaniac

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, gigantomania +‎ -ac, or, by surface analysis, giganto- +‎ -maniac.

Adjective

gigantomaniac (not comparable)

  1. Relating to, or characteristic of, gigantomania.
    Stalin's gigantomaniac visions
    • 1999, Eric Roman, The Stalin Years in Hungary (Studies in Russian History)‎[1], volume 2, E. Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 37:
      What was overlooked, or faced with reluctance, was that the mammoth projects of industrialization[,] which had all sprung from Stalin's gigantomaniac visions, gradually reversed the trend toward a better life for the workers and carried political risks that would in time assume dangerous proportions.

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