Homunculus vs. Midget

Homunculusnoun

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

Midgetnoun

(originally) A little sandfly.

‘Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you till you itch all over your unprotected skin.’;

Homunculusnoun

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

Midgetnoun

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

Homunculusnoun

A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.

Midgetnoun

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

Homunculusnoun

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

Midgetnoun

(sometimes derogatory) Any short person.

Homunculusnoun

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

Midgetnoun

(attributively) A small version of something; miniature.

‘the midget pony’;

Homunculus

A homunculus (UK: hom-UNK-yuul-əs, US: hohm-, Latin: [hɔˈmʊŋkʊlʊs]; ) 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.

‘little person’;

Midgetnoun

A minute bloodsucking fly.

Midgetnoun

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

Midgetnoun

a person who is abnormally small

Midgetadjective

very small;

‘diminutive in stature’; ‘a lilliputian chest of drawers’; ‘her petite figure’; ‘tiny feet’; ‘the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy’;

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.