baldness

English

The head of a bald male.

Etymology

bald +‎ -ness

Noun

baldness (countable and uncountable; plural baldnesses)

1. The state of being bald (said of a human).

Synonyms

• (baldness in humans): alopecia (medical term)
• hairlessness
• calvity

Translations

The state of being bald

• Arabic: صلع (ar) (ṣalaʕ) m

  Egyptian Arabic: صلع (ṣalaʕ) m

• Asturian: calvez (ast) f
• Catalan: calvície (ca) f, calbesa (ca) f
• Czech: plešatost (cs) f
• Dutch: kaalheid f
• Finnish: kaljuus (fi)
• French: calvitie (fr) f
• Galician: calvicie (gl) f

• German: Glatze (de) f, Glatzköpfigkeit (de) f
• Haitian Creole: pèt cheve
• Hungarian: kopaszság (hu)
• Indonesian: botak (id)
• Javanese: botak (jv)
• Macedonian: ќелавост (mk) (ḱélavost) f
• Portuguese: calvice f
• Spanish: calvicie (es) f
• Turkish: dazlak (tr), dazlaklık (tr), kellik (tr)
• Vietnamese: hói đầu (vi)

Derived terms

• male pattern baldness

See also

• hair loss
• Wikipedia article on baldness