hirsuteness

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Choice, and the normalizing of a wider spectrum of body shapes, sizes, colors and degrees of hirsuteness.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2019

Its hirsuteness was not a purposeful expression of a beard so much as evidence of a strong dislike for shaving.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2013

Young Owsley, whose adolescent hirsuteness caused him to be known ever after as Bear, was sent to a military preparatory school in Maryland.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2011

The law is mute on the shape and size of those ears and other elements of physiognomy, stature and hirsuteness that go into the chimerical mix of looks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The captain, engineer, and crew consisted of a grizzled anatomy bearing the densest growth of underbrush in the way of beard, whiskers, and general facial hirsuteness that the writer has ever gazed upon.

From The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by McKee, Lanier