DEPIGMENTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("depigmentation" is a kind of...):

coloration; colouration (appearance with regard to color)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depigmentation"):

poliosis (loss of color from the hair)

Antonym:

pigmentation (coloration of living tissues by pigment)