baldness

English

The head of a bald male.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

baldness (countable and uncountable, plural baldnesses)

2. The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.

   My baldness was the result of radiotherapy.

   • 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:

     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.

Synonyms

• (baldness in humans): alopecia (medical term)
• hairlessness
• calvities
• calvity

Derived terms

• antibaldness
• female pattern baldness (FPB)
• male pattern baldness (MPB)
• pattern baldness

Translations

condition or state of being (or becoming) bald

• Arabic: صَلَع m (ṣalaʕ)
• Armenian: ճաղատություն (hy) (čaġatutʻyun), (colloquial) քաչալություն (hy) (kʻačʻalutʻyun)
• Asturian: calvez f
• Belarusian: аблысе́нне n (ablysjénnje), пляшы́васць f (pljašývascʹ)
• Bulgarian: плеши́вост (bg) f (plešívost)
• Catalan: calvície (ca) f, calbesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禿頭 / 秃头 (zh) (tūtóu)

• Czech: plešatost f
• Dutch: kaalheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: kalveco, senhareco
• Finnish: kaljuus (fi)
• French: calvitie (fr) f
• Galician: calvicie (gl) f
• Georgian: სიმელოტე (simeloṭe)
• German: Glatze (de) f, Glatzköpfigkeit f, Haarlosigkeit (de) f, Haarlossein n, Kahlköpfigkeit (de) f, Kahlheit (de) f, Calvities f, Haarausfall (de) m (androgenetischer; beim Mann, bei der Frau), Alopezie (de) f (androgenetische; des Mannes), Glatzenbildung f (männliche / weibliche), Kargheit f, Dürftigkeit f, Schmucklosigkeit f
• Greek: φαλάκρα (el) f (falákra)

  Ancient: φαλακρότης f (phalakrótēs)

• Haitian Creole: pèt cheve
• Hungarian: kopaszság (hu)
• Ido: kalveso (io), senhareso, alopecio (io)
• Indonesian: botak (id)
• Italian: calvizie (it) f
• Japanese: 禿 (ja) (はげ, hage)
• Javanese: botak
• Korean: 대머리임 (daemeoriim)
• Latin: calvitium n
• Macedonian: ќелавост f (ḱelavost)
• Polish: łysienie (pl)
• Portuguese: calvice f
• Romanian: chelie (ro) f, pleșuvie (ro) f, calviție (ro)
• Russian: облысе́ние (ru) n (oblysénije), плеши́вость (ru) f (plešívostʹ)
• Sinhalese: තට්ටය (taṭṭaya)
• Slovak: plešatosť f
• Spanish: calvicie (es) f, calvez f
• Swahili: upara
• Swedish: skallighet (sv)
• Tagalog: upaw
• Turkish: dazlak (tr), dazlaklık (tr), kellik (tr)
• Ukrainian: облисі́ння n (oblysínnja), полисі́ння n (polysínnja), пліши́вість f (plišývistʹ)
• Vietnamese: hói đầu (vi)

See also

• female-pattern hair loss (FPHL)
• male-pattern hair loss (MPHL)
• hair loss
• baldness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bandless