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Etymology
By surface analysis, gigantomania + -ac, or, by surface analysis, giganto- + -maniac.
Adjective
gigantomaniac (not comparable)
- Relating to, or characteristic of, gigantomania.
Stalin's gigantomaniac visions
1999, Eric Roman, The Stalin Years in Hungary (Studies in Russian History), 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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