Giantess vs. Giant — What's the Difference?

A giantess is a female giant: either a mythical being, such as the Amazons of Greek mythology, resembling a woman of superhuman size and strength or a human woman of exceptional stature, often the result of some medical or genetic abnormality (see gigantism).

In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word giant is first attested in 1297 from Robert of Gloucester's chronicle.

A female giant.

A person or thing of great size.

A female giant.

A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance

A woman of extraordinary size.

Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.

A female giant

A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.

A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.

Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power

A mythical human of very great size.

(mythology) Specifically:

Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

A jotun.

A very tall and large person.

A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

A very large organisation.

A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Very large.

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Any creature of exceptional size

A person of exceptional importance and reputation

An unusually large enterprise;

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales

A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

Of great mass; huge and bulky;