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noun, plural -li 
[-lahy] .
[-lahy] . 1.
an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
2.
a fully formed, miniature human body believed, according to some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, to be contained in the spermatozoon.
3.
a diminutive human being.
4.
the human fetus.
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Homunculus
is always a great word to know.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Example Sentences
- There is no little homunculus up there watching reality on a screen and then deciding how to proceed.
- And he points out that exactly the same problem applies to how the homunculus would perceive its own qualia.
- It's that damned old homunculus problem and an infinite regress.
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Word Origin & History
homunculus
1650s, from L., lit. "little person," from homo (gen. hominis) "man, human being" + -culus, dim. suffix, source of English -cle.
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Medical Dictionary
homunculus ho·mun·cu·lus (hō-mŭng'kyə-ləs, hə-)
n. pl. ho·mun·cu·li (-lī')
A diminutive human.
A miniature, fully formed individual which adherents of the early biological theory of preformation believed to be present in the sperm cell.
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