stuntedness

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.

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 2010

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.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

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.

NPR Topics: News 2011

I should probably just list them all: ignorance, bad manners, perpetual tardiness, being over the age of forty, close-mindedness, sexual stuntedness, self-consciousness, conceitedness ... there's probably more.

Nerve.com 2010

Clearly she has found him cold and aloof, and we flashback to 1958 to find the root of this emotional stuntedness.

Irish Blogs 2009

Joe and i chevy trail blazer this stuntedness at the nea pyromania for oropharyngeal alcides and abattoir guevina in new seventies live wampanoag.

Rational Review 2009

In other words, over-proud, geeky "expansions" of Rowlings 'universe, as the film's one interviewed professor banally deems it with academic authority, shielding the stuntedness of adolescent fantasy with self-deprecating and pseudo-irreverent adorability.

indieWIRE News 2008

a proof that the stuntedness of those on the plains is owing to being, in the course of each year, more subjected to drought than moisture.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

However, liking a quiet stable life, I prefer having girlfriends for emotional support to compensate for M.Pomme’s stuntedness, than wondering where mi hombre is de 5 à 7.

in the company of men 2006