How do languages end up with so many words for the same thing?

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Why did we not stop at “big” and instead we now have “huge”, “massive”, “giagantic”, “large”, “enormous” etc?

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They are not the same. New words may come when the old words are not enough. For example Eskimos had many words for “snow”. Because they see so much snow that they have a need to identify it further based on what kind of snow it is.

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