Definition of "albinoism" [al•bi•no•ism]

• Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino (noun)

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• "The degeneration called albinoism has a remarkable influence upon the hair, destroying its coarse, nappy, wooly appearance, and converting it into fine, long, soft, silky, curly threads."
• "Why not try to correlate it to something like albinoism, which while similarly “broken” from a purely biological perspective carries no moral stigma?"
• "Generally speaking, my complexion being somewhere between the spectrum of Julianne Moore and albinoism, I am not a tanner."