HAIRLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hairlessness mean? 

• HAIRLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun HAIRLESSNESS has 2 senses:

1. the condition of being void of hair

2. the quality of not having hair

  Familiarity information: HAIRLESSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIRLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of being void of hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

depilation; hairlessness

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

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

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

baldness; phalacrosis (the condition of having no hair on the top of the head)

Derivation:

hairless (having no hair or fur)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of not having hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Antonym:

hairiness (the quality of having hair)

 Context examples 

Derived from inbred Hartley stocks at the Eastman Kodak Company and Montreal's Institute Armand Frappier, having undergone spontaneous mutation that led to hairlessness and athymicity.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The mutation that spawned the Hartley Hairless Guinea Pig was then re-derived at Charles River to restore thymus function while maintaining hairlessness.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)