Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Congenital absence of any pigmentation or coloration in a person, animal, or plant, resulting in white hair and pink eyes in mammals.
- n. The condition of being an albino.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or condition of being an albino; leucopathy; leucism. In botany, a condition of flowers or leaves in which they are white instead of having their ordinary colors, owing to a persistent deficiency of the usual coloring matter: to be distinguished from
blanching or etiolation, where the color returns on exposure to light. Compareerythrism . Also writtenalbinoism .
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair
Etymologies
- From albino (from Latin albus/alba via Spanish and Portuguese albo/alba, "white") + -ism. (Wiktionary)
- French albinisme, from German Albinismus, from Albino, albino, from Portuguese; see albino. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They have pink eyes and the albinism is caused by a melanin deficiency.”
“Besides, knocking out a pigment production pathway in a certain tissue is almost the most trivial mutational change I can imagine this is all it takes in albinism, which is caused by blocks anywhere in a series of proteins that produce the relevant pigments.”
“The dolphin's "stunningly pink" color is the result of albinism, which is indicated by its red eyes as well as its pink skin.”
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“Connolly will be on Friday's edition of ABC News '"20/20" as part of a story on the mistreatment by some East African nations of people with albinism, meaning that they lack pigment in their hair, eyes and skin.”
The Washington Post: Connolly featured in 20/20 report on albinism
“Some disorders or conditions, such as albinism and sickle cell disease, are passed on from the parents to the children.”
“Looking to the cases which I have collected of cross-bred animals closely resembling one parent, the resemblances seem chiefly confined to characters almost monstrous in their nature, and which have suddenly appearedsuch as albinism, melanism, deficiency of tail or horns, or additional fingers and toes; and do not relate to characters which have been slowly acquired through selection.”
IX. Hybridism. Hybrids and Mongrels Compared, Independently of Their Fertility
“Looking to the cases which I have collected of cross-bred animals closely resembling one parent, the resemblances seem chiefly confined to characters almost monstrous in their nature, and which have suddenly appeared — such as albinism, melanism, deficiency of tail or horns, or additional fingers and toes; and do not relate to characters which have been slowly acquired by selection.”
“Looking to the cases which I have collected of cross-bred animals closely resembling one parent, the resemblances seem chiefly confined to characters almost monstrous in their nature, and which have suddenly appeared -- such as albinism, melanism, deficiency of tail or horns, or additional fingers and toes; and do not relate to characters which have been slowly acquired by selection.”
“I have collected of cross-bred animals closely resembling one parent, the resemblances seem chiefly confined to characters almost monstrous in their nature, and which have suddenly appeared -- such as albinism, melanism, deficiency of tail or horns, or additional fingers and toes; and do not relate to characters which have been slowly acquired by selection.”
“New opportunities have thus been created for an improved understanding of disorders or diseases such as albinism and malignant melanoma.”
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patiomensch Albino = NOT a favorite word. Convert it into an '-ism,' however, and you've got a favorite. Albinism! I love saying it. 'Al-bin-ism' Apr 13, 2007