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baldness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.

  1. inherited from ballednesse

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baldness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA