BALDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baldness mean? 

• BALDNESS (noun)
  The noun BALDNESS has 1 sense:

1. the condition of having no hair on the top of the head

  Familiarity information: BALDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of having no hair on the top of the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

baldness; phalacrosis

Hypernyms ("baldness" is a kind of...):

depilation; hairlessness (the condition of being void of hair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baldness"):

alopecia (loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer))

male-patterned baldness; male pattern baldness (loss of hair on the crown of the head)

Derivation:

bald (lacking hair on all or most of the scalp)

 Context examples 

If I am reserved to wear a wig, I am at least prepared, externally, in allusion to his baldness, for that distinction.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His broad, grizzled head, with its shining patch of baldness, was in the immediate foreground of our vision.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Representative examples may include alopecia, male pattern baldness, hirsutism, and hair shaft disorders.

(Non-Neoplastic Hair Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)