baldness
baldness noun: the condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
Noun
baldness (countable and uncountable, plural baldnesses)
- The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
- My baldness was the result of radiotherapy.
- We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144
- Synonyms:
- alopecia, hairlessness, calvities, calvity
baldness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
baldness in Hindi
- baldness, hair loss
- गंजा gañjā
baldness in Tamil
- condition or state of being (or becoming) bald
- சொட்டை coṭṭai
baldness in Urdu
- گنج
baldness in Bengali
- baldness
- টাক ṭak
More languagesFewer languages
- baldness in Malayalam
- കഷണ്ടി, ചുട്ടി, ചൊട്ട, ചൊട്ടി
- baldness in Kannada
- ತೆಗಳಿ, ತೆಗಳಿಗೆ, ಬೊಕ್ಕತನ, ಬೊಳೆತನ
- baldness in Gujarati
- ટાલ ṭāl
- baldness in Sinhala
- තට්ටය taṭṭaya
- baldness in Tagalog
- upaw
- baldness in Arabic
- صَلَع ṣalaʕ
- baldness in Indonesian
- botak
- baldness in Vietnamese
- hói đầu
Synonyms of baldness
Forms of baldness
| plural | baldnesses |
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Origin of baldness
From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.
Words formed from baldness
Questions about baldness
- What does baldness mean?
- Baldness means the condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
- What is baldness in Hindi?
- Baldness in Hindi is गंजा (gañjā). See Baldness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is baldness?
- Baldness is a noun.
- What is the plural of baldness?
- The plural of baldness is baldnesses.
Words near baldness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: baldness (page history and authors); गंजा (Hindi) (page history and authors); baldness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); টাক (Bengali) (page history and authors); baldness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); baldness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ટાલ (Gujarati) (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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