English
Etymology
From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
baldness (countable and uncountable, plural baldnesses)
- The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144: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.
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condition or state of being (or becoming) bald
- Arabic: صَلَع m (ṣalaʕ)
- Armenian: ճաղատություն (hy) (čaġatutʻyun), (colloquial) քաչալություն (hy) (kʻačʻalutʻyun)
- Asturian: calvez f
- Belarusian: аблысе́нне n (ablysjénnje), пляшы́васць f (pljašývascʹ)
- Bulgarian: плеши́вост (bg) f (plešívost)
- Catalan: calvície (ca) f, calbesa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 禿頭 / 秃头 (zh) (tūtóu)
- Czech: plešatost f
- Dutch: kaalheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: kalveco, senhareco
- Finnish: kaljuus (fi)
- French: calvitie (fr) f
- Galician: calvicie (gl) f
- Georgian: სიმელოტე (simeloṭe)
- German: Glatze (de) f, Glatzköpfigkeit f, Haarlosigkeit (de) f, Haarlossein n, Kahlköpfigkeit (de) f, Kahlheit (de) f, Calvities f, Haarausfall (de) m (androgenetischer; beim Mann, bei der Frau), Alopezie (de) f (androgenetische; des Mannes), Glatzenbildung f (männliche / weibliche), Kargheit f, Dürftigkeit f, Schmucklosigkeit f
- Greek: φαλάκρα (el) f (falákra)
- Ancient: φαλακρότης f (phalakrótēs)
- Haitian Creole: pèt cheve
- Hungarian: kopaszság (hu)
- Ido: kalveso (io), senhareso, alopecio (io)
- Indonesian: botak (id)
- Italian: calvizie (it) f
- Japanese: 禿 (ja) (はげ, hage)
- Javanese: botak
- Korean: 탈모증(脫毛症) (talmojeung)
- Latin: calvitium n
- Macedonian: ќелавост f (ḱelavost)
- Polish: łysienie (pl)
- Portuguese: calvice f, calvície (pt) f
- Romanian: chelie (ro) f, pleșuvie (ro) f, calviție (ro)
- Russian: облысе́ние (ru) n (oblysénije), плеши́вость (ru) f (plešívostʹ)
- Sinhalese: තට්ටය (taṭṭaya)
- Slovak: plešatosť f
- Spanish: calvicie (es) f, calvez f
- Swahili: upara
- Swedish: skallighet (sv)
- Tagalog: upaw
- Turkish: dazlak (tr), dazlaklık (tr), kellik (tr)
- Ukrainian: облисі́ння n (oblysínnja), полисі́ння n (polysínnja), пліши́вість f (plišývistʹ)
- Vietnamese: hói đầu (vi)
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