Definition of Hairlessness

1. Noun. The condition of being void of hair.

Exact synonyms: Depilation
Generic synonyms: Condition, Status
Specialized synonyms: Baldness, Phalacrosis
Derivative terms: Hairless

2. Noun. The quality of not having hair.
Generic synonyms: Appearance, Visual Aspect
Antonyms: Hairiness

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

haire
haired
hairedness
hairen
haires
hairgrip
hairgrips
hairier
hairiest
hairily
hairiness
hairinesses
hairing
hairless
hairlessly
hairlessness (current term)
hairlessnesses
hairlike
hairline
hairline fracture
hairlines
hairlock
hairlocks
hairnet
hairnets
hairnetted
hairpiece
hairpieces
hairpin
hairpin bend

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, ..."

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