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Definition of Pilosity
1. Noun. The quality of having hair.
Generic synonyms: Appearance, Visual Aspect
Specialized synonyms: Hirsuteness, Hirsutism
Antonyms: Hairlessness
Derivative terms: Hairy
Definition of Pilosity
1. n. The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness.
Definition of Pilosity
1. Noun. The quality or state of being pilose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilosity
1. the state of being pilose [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilosity
Literary usage of Pilosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American by Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1869)
"pilosity of Negroes. The question as to the relative amount of pilosity, or
general hairiness of body, in the white and black races is one of some ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"Beasts are more hairy than men, and savage men more than civil, and the plumage
of birds exceedeth the pilosity of beasts. The cause of the smoothness in ..."
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