nudity

 nudity on Wikipedia

From nude +‎ -ity. Compare Late Latin nūditās.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjudɪˌti/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnudɪti/

nudity (usually uncountable, plural nudities)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being without clothing on the body; specifically, the quality of being without clothing on the genitals.

   Synonyms: nakedness, bareness, nudeness

   In places such as Scandinavia, public nudity is legal.

2. (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.

   • 1865 March 5, “The Prince Napoleon's Ball.”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     M. PILS' battle-piece, representing Prince NAPOLEON leading his division at Alma, and some of M. GEROME's startling nudities.

• frontal nudity
• full frontal nudity

• nude
• nudism
• nudist

• untidy