Did you ever notice, gentlemen, how lying and baldness go together?
Neeld was surprised at the baldness of the question, but Harry took it as natural.
His baldness struck one immediately, but it did not give him a look of age.
On the whole I think we must leave the announcement as it stands in all its baldness.
His frown caused a disturbance throughout his vast tracts of baldness.
She added nothing to the question, but asked it in all its baldness.
The wind had disarranged his sleek hair, revealing his baldness.
The barber, inclined to stoutness and baldness, shook his head.
In contrast with what is found among the insane, baldness is very rare.
Even some sorts of baldness are due to growing things at the roots of the hair.
c.1300, ballede, probably, with Middle English -ede adjectival suffix + Celtic bal "white patch, blaze" especially on the head of a horse or other animal (from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, gleam;" see bleach (v.)). Cf., from the same root, Sanskrit bhalam "brightness, forehead," Greek phalos "white," Latin fulcia "coot" (so called for the white patch on its head), Albanian bale "forehead." But connection with ball (n.1), on notion of "smooth, round" also has been suggested. Bald eagle first attested 1680s; so called for its white head.
baldness bald·ness (bôld'nĭs)
n.
The lack of all or a significant part of the hair on the head and sometimes on other parts of the body.
bald (bôld)
adj. bald·er, bald·est
Lacking hair on the head.
