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nudity

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nude  (nd, nyd)
adj. nud·er, nud·est
1. Having no clothing; naked.
2. Permitting or featuring full exposure of the body: a nude beach.
3. Law Lacking any of various legal requisites, such as evidence.
n.
1. An unclothed human figure, especially an artistic representation.
2. The condition of being unclothed.

[Latin ndus; see nogw- in Indo-European roots.]

nudely adv.
nudi·ty (nd-t, ny-), nudeness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.nuditynudity - the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
nude - without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude'); "they swam in the nude"
altogether, birthday suit, raw - informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"
undress - partial or complete nakedness; "a state of undress"
bareness - the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)

nudity
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Spanish nudity [ˈnjuːdɪtɪ] ndesnudez f
French nudity [ˈnjuːdɪtɪ] nnudité f
German nudity [ˈnjuːdɪtɪ] nude nNacktheit f
Italian nudity [ˈnjuːdɪtɪ] nnudità

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I was amused at the appearance of four or five old women who, in a state of utter nudity, with their arms extended flatly down their sides, and holding themselves perfectly erect, were leaping stiffly into the air, like so many sticks bobbing to the surface, after being pressed perpendicularly into the water.
Dim, flattened, constrained by their confinement, they had never appealed to her as now, when they wandered in the still air with a stark quality like that of nudity.
Not that this inward amazement of Dorothea's was anything very exceptional: many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities and left to "find their feet" among them, while their elders go about their business.
 
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