Homunculus vs. Midget — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Homunculus and Midget
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Homunculus
A homunculus (UK: hom-UNK-yuul-əs, US: hohm-, Latin: [hɔˈmʊŋkʊlʊs]; "little person") is a representation of a small human being. Popularized in sixteenth-century alchemy and nineteenth-century fiction, it has historically referred to the creation of a miniature, fully formed human.
Midget
Midget (from midge, a sand fly) is a term for a person of unusually short stature that is considered by some to be pejorative. While not a medical term, it has been applied to persons of unusually short stature, often with dwarfism, a medical condition with a number of causes including achondroplasia, and particularly proportionate dwarfism.
Homunculus
A diminutive human.
Midget
(Offensive) An extremely small person who is otherwise normally proportioned.
Homunculus
A miniature, fully formed individual believed by adherents of the early biological theory of preformation to be present in the sperm cell.
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Midget
A small or miniature version of something.
Homunculus
A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
Midget
A class of small objects, as a class of very small sailboats or racing cars.
Homunculus
The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.
Midget
Miniature; diminutive.
Homunculus
A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
Midget
Belonging to a type or class much smaller than what is considered standard
A midget automobile.
Homunculus
A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
Midget
(originally) A little sandfly.
Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you till you itch all over your unprotected skin.
Homunculus
A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
Midget
(loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge.
Midget
A normally-proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
Midget
Any short person.
Midget
(attributively) A small version of something; miniature.
The midget pony
Midget
A minute bloodsucking fly.
Midget
A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the body parts; compare dwarf.
Midget
A person who is abnormally small
Midget
Very small;
Diminutive in stature
A lilliputian chest of drawers
Her petite figure
Tiny feet
The flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
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