Homunculus

/həˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/

Synonyms for "homunculus" (23 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

Noun(1 words)
inner agent

Strong matches (7)

Noun(4 words)
internal observerlittle manmanikinmannikin

Related words (11)

Noun(5 words)
miniature humanminiature mindpreformation figurepreformed humantiny human

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

13 entries
cognitive modelcortical maphuman beingindividualmortalneural representationorganismpersonsmall personsomebodysomeonesoultheoretical construct

More specific

4 entries
motor homunculusovarian homunculussensory homunculusspermatic homunculus

Collocations

6 entries
cortical homunculushomunculus maphomunculus theorymotor homunculuspreformation homunculussensory homunculus

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Ser Perth stayed near him most of the time now. The man was obviously worried, but tried not to show it. "We've managed to get some testosterone from a blond homunculus," he reported. "That should put you on your feet in no time. Don't worry, young man we'll keep you vivified somehow until the Sign changes." But he didn't sound convincing.

Source: wiktionary

“It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”

Source: wiktionary

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