dwarfism

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The condition of being a dwarf (person of short stature).

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

2. 2
   noun

   The quality of being puny or inferior.

   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!

3. 3
   noun

   a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature

Etymology

From dwarf + -ism.