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/nˈudɪti/ Listen

noun

Nudity n. (pl. nudities)

The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.

That which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (Fine Arts), The human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense. "There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities."

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Etymology of 'Nudity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nudity" Quotes from Famous Books

... to be going home for some time to come," said another, a seraphic-faced nudity contemplating his biceps in the small looking-glass that adorned the inside of his chest, "so I shouldn't worry. I say, I'm sweating up a deuce of an arm on me. Shouldn't wonder if I pulled off the ...

— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

... be thought of for a moment that Bartleby was an immoral person. But what could he be doing there?—copying? Nay again, whatever might be his eccentricities, Bartleby was an eminently decorous person. He would be the last man to sit down to his desk in any state approaching to nudity. Besides, it was Sunday; and there was something about Bartleby that forbade the supposition that he would by any secular occupation violate the proprieties of ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

... decency. Some score of us, or perhaps a dozen, went up together for surgical examination, and were made to strip stark naked in each other's presence. I had never objected to this amongst my own kind and kindred, when one exposed one's nudity by the side of the clean brook or yellow canal in which we used to bathe in boyhood; but amongst this crew it was hard, and even terrible. We had all been bathed, perforce, before the medical examination began; but a mere tubbing does ...

— Recollections • David Christie Murray

... that the Pope, scandalized at the nudity of certain figures, a nudity which Daniele da Volterra was afterwards charged to clothe, sent word to Michael Angelo that ...

— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton

... philosophers and teachers have become so intoxicated with the dream of Pan-Germanism that in the utmost sincerity they have espoused and with a certain pride proclaimed the vicious principles of Machiavelli in all their moral nudity. There is an emotional and mystical element in the advanced German thinker, which makes him capable of accepting in full sincerity intellectual and moral absurdities of which the more robust common sense of other nations would be incapable. The ...

— The Evidence in the Case • James M. Beck

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