Alopecia
Alopecia noun - Loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer).
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Synonyms for Alopecia
Baldness
Baldness noun - The condition of having no hair on the top of the head.
Alopecia is a synonym for baldness in hairlessness topic. You can use "Alopecia" instead a noun "Baldness", if it concerns topics such as male hair loss.
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Related pairs
- phalacrosis and alopecia
- phalacrosis and baldness
- hairlessness and alopecia
- hairlessness and baldness
- male pattern baldness and alopecia
- male pattern baldness and baldness
- hair loss and alopecia
- hair loss and baldness
- bald-headedness and alopecia
- bald-headedness and baldness
- madarosis and alopecia
- madarosis and baldness
- bald-patedness and alopecia
- bald-patedness and baldness
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Be it via alopecia or a similar condition, really early onset male pattern baldness, some sort of accident... it's not as though high school wasn't already hard enough, now you're losing your hair a few decades early.
Source: Prematurely Bald - There is a condition called alopecia that can cause baldness in children and teenagers.
Source: Prematurely Bald - Matt Lucas also suffers from alopecia, and he's used his baldness to his advantage, playing a wide variety of characters on Little Britain using wigs and makeup.
Source: Prematurely Bald
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Baldness and Alopecia. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alopecia/baldness
Alopecia & Baldness. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/alopecia/baldness>.
Baldness or Alopecia. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/alopecia/baldness.
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