glabrity

English

Etymology

Latin glabritas.

Noun

glabrity (uncountable)

1. smoothness or baldness.

   Synonym: glabrousness

   • 1922, Earl Lind, edited by Alfred W. Herzog, The Female-Impersonators, Part 4:

     I had had my beardal hair eradicated so that I could glory in a countenance of an infantile softness and an exquisite glabrity.

Related terms

• glabrous

References

• “glabrity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.