baldness
noun
- state where most or all of hair from the head has been lost or intentionally removed
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.
- The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
“My baldness was the result of radiotherapy.”
“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.”