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

Question

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

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Answer 1

In the modern world, consultants play a big role. They have this huge need to largely express the same thing differently. They are massive fans of such adjectives and are generally tools of gigantic proportions.