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Definition of Hairlessness
1. Noun. The condition of being void of hair.
Generic synonyms: Condition, Status
Specialized synonyms: Baldness, Phalacrosis
Derivative terms: Hairless
2. Noun. The quality of not having hair.
Definition of Hairlessness
1. Noun. The condition or quality of being hairless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hairlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairlessness
Literary usage of Hairlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1901)
"The chief character of the human race which he proposes to account for in this
way is the general hairlessness of the body. " No one supposes," he says, ..."
2. Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution; Centennial Addresses by Edward Bagnall Poulton, John Merle Coulter, David Starr Jordan, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, William Ernest Castle, Charles Benedict Davenport, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Granville Stanley Hall (1909)
"... tail- lessness in cats, dogs, and poultry; hairlessness in horses, cows, and
dogs; spinelessness and hairlessness in vegetative organs and fruits; ..."
3. Studies in the Evolution of Animals by Emanuel Bonavia (1895)
"Hairlessness of the body is found ' normal' in the hairless race of Chinese Dogs,
but it has also ... So that we begin to suspect that the hairlessness of ..."
4. The Physical Basis of Civilization: A Revised Version of "Psychic and by Theodore William Heineman (1908)
"Comparative hairlessness has been discussed in this place because it is interesting
in ... if the views here expressed on hairlessness should be untenable. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... was thrown up in jets by a hairless mole, which was only observed 200 miles
from the coast. The hairlessness of this animal, ..."