phalacrosis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbaldness

   Broaderhairlessness

   Narroweralopeciamale-patterned baldness

Other forms of phalacrosis

plural

phalacrosises·

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 phalacrosis

What does phalacrosis mean?

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

How many syllables are in phalacrosis?

phalacrosis has 4 syllables: pha-la-cro-sis. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for phalacrosis?

Close synonyms include baldness. 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 phalacrosis a common word?

phalacrosis 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.