Home › Words › E › edentulismedentulismedentulism means the condition of lacking some or all teeth; toothlessness.EtymologyFrom Latin ēdentulus + -ism.nounThe condition of lacking some or all teeth; toothlessness.e.g.“There is no gender correlation for partial edentulism.” — 2015 June 1, Vidhya Jeyapalan, Chitra Shankar Krishnan, “Partial Edentulism and its Correlation to Age, Gender, Socio-economic Status and Incidence of Various Kennedy’s Classes– A Literature Review”, Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.edentation 84% match — The condition of being deprived of one or more teeth. vs edentulism →edentulousness 83% match — The property of being edentulous; lack of teeth. vs edentulism →edentulate 82% match — Lacking teeth. vs edentulism →edentulous 80% match — Toothless. vs edentulism →edentated 79% match — Lacking teeth; edentate. vs edentulism →edentulosity 76% match — Synonym of edentulousness. vs edentulism →edentalous 71% match — edentate; lacking teeth vs edentulism →dedentition 69% match — The shedding of teeth; tooth loss vs edentulism →