Definition of "stuntedness" []

• The quality of being stunted or dwarfed. (noun)

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• "And neither are we without sympathy for him: for his emotional stuntedness, his besetting blandness and his rather understandable desire to pre-empt catastrophe before it hunts him down."
• "It stood, somehow, for all that chafed and irritated him here -- the moral, mental, and physical stuntedness of the people -- their petty ambitions, petty jealousies, petty quarrels, petty virtues."
• "Schwartz doesn't overplay or underplay; instead, he cedes the stage to his characters, be they the Arnos; the now-18-year-old Emma Learner, who is navigating the tricky intersection of intellectual maturity and emotional stuntedness; or Penny, a literature prof who wants to be Dwight's new love interest but senses a chasm deeper than she can fathom."