nudity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From nude + -ity. Compare Late Latin nūditās.
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Noun[edit]
nudity (usually uncountable, plural nudities)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being without clothing on the body; specifically, the quality of being without clothing on the genitals.
- (countable, rare) Something or someone without clothes.
- Synonym: nude
- 1809, Wm. Weston, “Remarkable Instance of Propensity to the Savage State”, in The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1807[1], page 906:
- […] he had divested himself of the incumbrance of dress […] and although a nudity, he appeared before numbers of people unabashed, and with an unblushing composure of countenance, which envinces that the sense of shame in him is entirely abolished.
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Translations[edit]
the state of being without clothing on the body
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