trichotillomania
C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A disorder characterised by the recurrent, irresistible urge to pull out one's own hair, resulting in noticeable hair loss.
Her trichotillomania had left a patch of alopecia at the crown, which she concealed carefully with a scarf.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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