baldness

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsphalacrosis

   Broaderhairlessness

   Narroweralopeciamale-patterned baldness

Other forms of baldness

plural

baldnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about baldness

What does baldness mean?

baldness means "the condition of having no hair on the top of the head".

How many syllables are in baldness?

baldness has 2 syllables: bald-ness. The stress falls on "bald". In IPA it is /ˈbɔldnəs/.

What is another word for baldness?

Close synonyms include phalacrosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baldness a common word?

baldness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.