Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being hirsute; hairiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Hairiness.

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  • noun The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun excessive hairiness

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Examples

  • Follicly challenged Strauss has started 2012 by repeating the errors of 2011 by picking a side light on hirsuteness.

    Pakistan v England – live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth 2012

  • As men must do upon shaving after a prolonged hirsuteness, I decided on a silly halfway phase of comically long Wolverinish sideburns for a bit, but.

    This Day Anything Goes | ATTACKERMAN 2008

  • It will look like 1970, only without the bell-bottoms and excessive hirsuteness.

    Goodbye Bland Affluence 2009

  • Mind you, if my boyfriend had objected to the wearing of combat boots and occasional hirsuteness he really would not have gone out with me…

    FEMINISM » Sociological Images 2008

  • In 1960, John F. Kennedy set a standard for hirsuteness that candidates have been grappling with ever since.

    Putting Vanity First? : Bruce Handy Handy, Bruce 2008

  • Fast speaking (which is a symptom of some few) Aetius will have caused [2677] from abundance of wind, and swiftness of imagination: [2678] baldness comes from excess of dryness, hirsuteness from a dry temperature.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Given your rufous hirsuteness, a good South Park reference would be to call yourselves the Soulless Gingers.

    impaled gail, lynched lyndon 2007

  • The general notions [1293] physiognomers give, be these; black colour argues natural melancholy; so doth leanness, hirsuteness, broad veins, much hair on the brows, saith

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The writer in question was not talking about the decision by some feminists to refrain from using depilatory products, but cases of extreme hirsuteness in women.

    Hair Apparent Kirsty 2006

  • The writer in question was not talking about the decision by some feminists to refrain from using depilatory products, but cases of extreme hirsuteness in women.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Kirsty 2006

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