Homunculus vs. Midget — What's the Difference?

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 (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.

A diminutive human.

(Offensive) An extremely small person who is otherwise normally proportioned.

A miniature, fully formed individual believed by adherents of the early biological theory of preformation to be present in the sperm cell.

A small or miniature version of something.

A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.

A class of small objects, as a class of very small sailboats or racing cars.

The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

Miniature; diminutive.

A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.

Belonging to a type or class much smaller than what is considered standard

A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

(originally) A little sandfly.

A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

(loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge.

A normally-proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".

Any short person.

(attributively) A small version of something; miniature.

A minute bloodsucking fly.

A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the body parts; compare dwarf.

A person who is abnormally small

Very small;