gigantomania

English

Etymology

From giganto- +‎ -mania.

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

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