text: would u say that a person who's well over 7 ft tall is a giant or freakish? i was watching wwf( i love to watch) and there was a guy who's over 7 ft tall he weights in at 420pds  and he looks like a giant( well me being short i guess anyone pass  6 or 7 is a giant to me) according to the definition of giantism, an american or european 7-8 ft tall (although they can be taller), they figure it out by being in the upper like .000001% of the population for height, it calculates in age, sex, ethnicity  "the term is rarely applied to basketball players and those whose heights appear to be the healthy result of normal genetics and nutrition."