baldness
nounEtymology From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.
1
The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
- My baldness was the result of radiotherapy.
- We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:
- Synonyms
- alopecia, hairlessness, calvities, calvity
- Derived terms
- antibaldness, female pattern baldness, male pattern baldness, pattern baldness
- Related terms
- female-pattern hair loss, male-pattern hair loss, hair loss