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alopecy

alopecy is the dated form of alopecia.

Meaning of alopecia

Noun

alopecia (countable and uncountable, plural alopecias)

  1. Baldness.
  2. A deficiency of the hair, which may be caused by a failure to grow or loss after growth.
  3. A loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers, whether natural or caused by disease.
    • “Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” Rock said in an apparent reference to her shaved hair, which is a result of the hair loss condition alopecia.2022 March 28, Nadia Khomami, “‘Violence instead of words’: Will Smith condemned for hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2022

Questions about alopecy

What is alopecy the dated form of?
Alopecy is the dated form of alopecia.

Words near alopecy in the dictionary

  1. alopecist
  2. alopecists
  3. alopecoid
  4. alopecoids
  5. alopecurone
  6. alopecy
  7. Alopeki
  8. alopekis
  9. aloperine
  10. alopiid
  11. alopiids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alopecy (page history and authors); alopecia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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