Associations to the word «Homunculus»

Wiktionary

HOMUNCULUS, noun. A little man.
HOMUNCULUS, noun. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

Dictionary definition

HOMUNCULUS, noun. A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal.
HOMUNCULUS, noun. A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin