dwarfism

English

Etymology

From dwarf +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdwɔɹfɪzəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdwɔːfɪzəm/

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Noun

dwarfism (countable and uncountable, plural dwarfisms)

1. The condition of being a dwarf (person of short stature).
   • 1985, J. D. Esko et al., “Animal Cell Mutants Defective in Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 82, number 10, page 3200:

     Studies of disproportionate dwarfisms in animals have revealed the importance of core proteins an sulfation in the development of cartilage.

2. The quality of being puny or inferior.
   • 2011, Peter Burt, Fables, page 124:

     Childish, childish to the core: that's why they're so good at nursing, they're arrested in a state of permanent intellectual dwarfism themselves!

Derived terms

• Amsterdam dwarfism
• island dwarfism
• semidwarfism

Translations

condition of being a dwarf

• Asturian: nanismu m
• Catalan: nanisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侏儒症 (zh) (zhūrúzhèng)

• Esperanto: naneco
• Finnish: kääpiökasvuisuus
• French: nanisme (fr) m
• Galician: nanismo m, ananismo m
• German: Kleinwuchs (de) m
• Greek: νανισμός (el) m (nanismós)
• Italian: nanismo (it) m
• Japanese: 小人症 (こびとしょう, kobitoshō)
• Kazakh: ергежейлік (ergejeilık)
• Khmer: ភាពតឿ (phiəptɨə)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: dvergvekst m
• Persian: کوتولگی (fa) (kutulegi)
• Polish: karłowatość (pl) f
• Portuguese: nanismo (pt) m
• Romanian: nanism (ro) n
• Russian: ка́рликовость (ru) f (kárlikovostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: patuljasti rast m, nanosomija (sh) n (medical term)
• Spanish: enanismo m
• Swedish: kortvuxenhet c, dvärgväxt c (less preferred for humans)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: cücelik (tr)
• Vietnamese: hội chứng lùn, chứng thấp lùn