Calvity

//ˈkælvɪti// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Baldness. uncountable
  2. 2
    An area of skin that has become bald. countable, uncountable

    "He wore his own hair – what there was left of it: short tight curls round a shining calvity, though he was in his thirties, no more – and he looked like one of the fatter, more jovial Roman emperors […]."

Synonyms

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baldnessbaldness

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"He wore his own hair – what there was left of it: short tight curls round a shining calvity, though he was in his thirties, no more – and he looked like one of the fatter, more jovial Roman emperors […]."

Etymology

From Latin calvitium (“baldness”), from calvus (“bald”).

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