HAIRINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hairiness mean? 

• HAIRINESS (noun)
  The noun HAIRINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of having hair

  Familiarity information: HAIRINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIRINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of having hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hairiness; pilosity

Hypernyms ("hairiness" is a kind of...):

appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hairiness"):

hirsuteness; hirsutism (excessive hairiness)

Antonym:

hairlessness (the quality of not having hair)

Derivation:

hairy (having or covered with hair)

 Context examples 

The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was the same resemblance between our feet, with the same differences; which I knew very well, though the horses did not, because of my shoes and stockings; the same in every part of our bodies except as to hairiness and colour, which I have already described.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)