bare-chestedness

See also: barechestedness

English

Alternative forms

• barechestedness

Etymology

From bare-chested +‎ -ness.

Noun

bare-chestedness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being barechested.
   • 1989 April, Julian F. Thompson, “Illuminations”, in Goofbang Value Daze, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Hardcover, →ISBN, page 121:

     The last of that was said because, by then, we’d pushed each other’s shirts down off each other’s shoulders, and I had dipped my hands and face in her (adorable) bare-chestedness, where I was busily inhaling fragrances, and tasting/feeling tender, precious treasures.

   • 1992 October, Tom Deitz, “Deadman’s Curve”, in Dreambuilder, New York, N.Y.: AvoNova, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 159:

     Lew stood and shucked out of his shirt and T-shirt, matching Ron’s bare-chestedness—[…]

   • 2004, Ananya Chatterjea, “Raga (1998) and Sloka (1999): Troubling Femininity”, in Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha, Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 292:

     And of course, male bare-chestedness is no novelty, either in the American dance scene or the Indian one, so one wonders what the objection was about.