nudity

nudity

English

Etymology

From nude +‎ -ity. Compare Late Latin nūditās.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjudɪˌti/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnudɪti/

Noun

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, 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.

Related terms

• nude
• nudism
• nudist

Translations

the state of being without clothing on the body

Albanian: lakuriqësi (sq) f Armenian: մերկություն (hy) (merkutʿyun) Belarusian: галізна́ f (halizná) Bengali: নগ্নতা (bn) (nôgnôta) Bulgarian: голота́ (bg) f (golotá) Catalan: nuesa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 裸體／裸体 (zh) (luǒtǐ), 赤裸 (zh) (chìluǒ) Cornish: nothedh Czech: nahota (cs) f Danish: nøgenhed (da) c Dutch: naaktheid (nl) f Esperanto: nudeco Estonian: alastiolek Finnish: alastomuus (fi) French: nudité (fr) f Galician: nudez f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Nacktheit (de) f Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌵𐌰𐌳𐌴𐌹 f (naqadei) Greek: γυμνότητα (el) f (gymnótita) Ancient: γυμνότης f (gumnótēs) Hebrew: עירום‎ (he) m (‘erôm) Hindi: नंगापन (naṅgāpan) Hungarian: meztelenség (hu), mezítelenség, ruhátlanság, csupaszság (hu), pucérság, pőreség Icelandic: nekt f Ido: nudeso (io) Interlingua: nuditate Irish: nochtacht f Italian: nudità (it) f Japanese: 裸体 (ja) (らたい, ratai) Korean: 벌거숭이 (ko) (beolgeosung'i), 나체(裸體) (ko) (nache) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ڕوتی‎ (rutî) Latin: nūditas f Lithuanian: nuogumas m Macedonian: го́лота f (gólota), голо́тија f (golótija) Malayalam: നഗ്നത (ml) (nagnata) Maori: tūtahanga Norwegian: Bokmål: nakenhet m or f Old English: nacodnes f Pashto: لوڅ تيا‎ f (luśtyâ) Persian: برهنگی‎ (fa) (berahnegi) Polish: nagość (pl) f Portuguese: nudez (pt) f Romanian: nuditate (ro) f Russian: нагота́ (ru) f (nagotá) Scottish Gaelic: luime f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нагост f, нагота f Roman: nagost (sh) f, nagota (sh) f Slovak: nahota f Slovene: golóst f, nágost f Spanish: desnudez (es) f Swedish: nakenhet (sv) Tajik: бараҳнагӣ (tg) (barahnagī) Telugu: నగ్నత్వము (nagnatvamu) Turkish: çıplaklık (tr) Ukrainian: нагота́ f (nahotá)

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