hairlessness

Other forms of hairlessness

plural

hairlessnesses·

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 hairlessness

What does hairlessness mean?

hairlessness means "the condition of being void of hair". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hairlessness?

hairlessness has 3 syllables: hair-les-sness. The stress falls on "hair".

What is another word for hairlessness?

Close synonyms include depilation. 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.

What is the opposite of hairlessness?

The recorded antonyms are hairiness.

Is hairlessness a common word?

hairlessness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.