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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMUNCULAR

homuncular  [hɒˈmʌŋkjʊlə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMUNCULAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homuncular is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HOMUNCULAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of homuncular in the English dictionary

The definition of homuncular in the dictionary is resembling a midget; diminutive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMUNCULAR


avuncular
əˈvʌŋkjʊlə
calcular
ˈkælkjʊlə
carbuncular
kɑːˈbʌŋkjʊlə
cardiovascular
ˌkɑːdɪəʊˈvæskjʊlə
caruncular
kəˈrʌŋkjʊlə
circular
ˈsɜːkjʊlə
curricular
kəˈrɪkjʊlə
Dracula
ˈdrækjʊlə
furuncular
fjʊˈrʌŋkjʊlə
molecular
məʊˈlɛkjʊlə
muscular
ˈmʌskjʊlə
ocular
ˈɒkjʊlə
particular
pəˈtɪkjʊlə
peduncular
pɪˈdʌŋkjʊlə
perpendicular
ˌpɜːpənˈdɪkjʊlə
secular
ˈsɛkjʊlə
spectacular
spɛkˈtækjʊlə
vascular
ˈvæskjʊlə
vehicular
vɪˈhɪkjʊlə
vincula
ˈvɪŋkjʊlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMUNCULAR

homothermous
homothermy
homotonic
homotonous
homotony
homotransplant
homotype
Homousian
homozygosis
homozygosity
homozygote
homozygotic
homozygous
homozygously
Homs
homuncle
homuncule
homunculi
homunculus
homy

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMUNCULAR

auricular
avascular
binocular
biomolecular
cerebrovascular
corpuscular
diverticular
extracurricular
follicular
in particular
intermolecular
intramolecular
intramuscular
macromolecular
macular
navicular
neuromuscular
popular
testicular
ventricular
vernacular

Synonyms and antonyms of homuncular in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homuncular» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMUNCULAR

Find out the translation of homuncular to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of homuncular from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «homuncular» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

homuncular
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homuncular
570 millions of speakers

English

homuncular
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

homuncular
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

homuncular
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

homuncular
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homuncular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

homuncular
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homuncular
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homuncular
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

homuncular
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

homuncular
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

homuncular
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homunculus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

homuncular
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

homuncular
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घूमजाव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

homuncular
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

homuncular
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homuncular
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

homuncular
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

homuncular
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

homuncular
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homuncular
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homuncular
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homuncular
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homuncular

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMUNCULAR»

The term «homuncular» is used very little and occupies the 192.605 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMUNCULAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about homuncular

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMUNCULAR»

Discover the use of homuncular in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homuncular and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Critique of a Homuncular Model of Mind from the Neo-vitalist ...
The integrity of thought and its warm and intimate substrate---the bodily, is what will be seen to stitch the most profound self together in the most primordial fashion.
Peter Vere Warden, 2007
2
Perspectives on Self-deception
The use of such homuncular models is by no means restricted to Freudian theory. Homuncular models are the common currency of most recent theorizing in the cognitive sciences.4 Natural as the homuncular approach may seem in the ...
Brian P. McLaughlin, Amélie Rorty, 1988
3
Stich and His Critics
But the model-based approach does have some distinctive features that homuncular functionalism does not have. Again, model-based scientific work always involves resemblance relations between model structures and target systems.
Dominic Murphy, Michael Bishop, 2009
4
Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step
"To explain the functioning of a complex whole by detailing the individual roles and overall organization of its parts is to engage in homuncular explanation" ( Clark 1996, p. 263). In effect, this definition identifies homuncular explanation with ...
Michael Wheeler, 2005
5
Consciousness
Homuncular Functionalism Dennett takes his cue from the methodology of certain AI research projects:6 The AI researcher starts with an intentionally characterized problem (e.g., how can I get a computer to understand questions of English?) ...
William G. Lycan, 1995
6
Tending Adam's Garden: Evolving the Cognitive Immune Self
§155 Homuncular down-regulation goes like this. A primary immune reaction to a rare foreign antigen has no built-in regulation; thus a response to a foreign antigen may be difficult to terminate before the last trace of foreign antigen is ...
Irun R. Cohen, 2000
7
Homuncular Misfit
David Greenslade writes with passion and intensity yet is always eminently readable.
David Greenslade, 2011
8
Philosophy and Connectionist Theory
Data for homuncular psychology are rich and various; they are by no means limited to the usual sorts of gross behavior fastened upon by Analytical Behaviorists and by folk psychology. They include subtle and infrequently remarked ...
William Ramsey, David E. Rumelhart, Stephen P. Stich, 2013
9
Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspectives from ...
If it is possible to describe group endeavors in methodological individualist terms, it is equally possible to describe human endeavors in homuncular terms. So, if it is supposed to follow in the one case that human activity cannot produce group ...
Debra J. H. Mathews, Hilary Bok, Peter V. Rabins, 2009
10
The Cambridge Companion to Freud
In the right contexts homuncular explanations genuinely explain. If we open Judith up and find within her a little person who through the magic of electronics causes Judith to move, and the little person tells us it wished to insult Hermione, we ...
Jerome Neu, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMUNCULAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homuncular is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Awkward Synthesis That Is 'Inside Out'
The homuncular model of the brain or mind is something we've dreamed up to help us make sense of the fact that we, ourselves, feel and think ... «WCBE 90.5 FM, Jul 15»
2
How To Master Your Third Arm
The study explores the concept of “homuncular flexibility”, wherein people learn to control bodies different from their own by changing how they ... «Popular Science, Jan 15»
3
Dot Earth | An #AskDrH Question on Energy Science for Obama's …
But it's a homuncular notion that presumes the original discovery contained the entire blueprint of the final outcome. We'd be denying the ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
4
How to refresh your inner Gollum: health and the homunculus
I first came across this idea of homuncular “smudging” in an invaluable book titled The Sensitive Nervous System by physiotherapist and ... «The Guardian, Jun 14»
5
When it comes to selfies, James Franco could take a lesson from …
He carries it with him to a lot of places and it shows up it many of his photos, an amusing little homuncular doppelganger. You might think this ... «The Globe and Mail, Jan 14»
6
Pump-primer
Such homuncular functionalism (as the approach is known in AI circles) replaces the infinite regress with a finite one that terminates at tasks so ... «The Economist, Jun 13»
7
Television's Last President
Our homuncular collective id is Benjamin Buttoning. Right now we're at a drooling stage, and Beyoncé is pretty. She is pretty, you guys. She is ... «VICE, Jan 13»
8
Almost Live: Oregon vs California
... the Golden Bears' football program is the California schools' equivalent of homuncular leftover shit that Danny DeVito played in the film. «Willamette Week, Nov 12»
9
The Violinist's Thumb
Under preformationist theory, such spontaneous generation wasn't necessary: homuncular babies were indeed preformed and merely needed ... «NPR, May 12»
10
Writing “Girls”
... first episodes of “Girls” planted the theme of Marnie's sexual issues with her boyfriend and her turn-on by an aggressively homuncular artist. «New Yorker, May 12»

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