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Meaning of NUDITY

Pronunciation:  'nooditee

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
 

NUDITY is a 6 letter word that starts with N.

 

 Synonyms: nakedness, nudeness
 
 See Also: altogether, bareness, birthday suit, condition, nude, raw, status, undress

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Nu"di*ty\, n.; pl. {Nudities}. [Cf. F. nudit['e] .]
1. The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.

2. 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.                             --Dryden.

 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: baldness, bareness, beauty unadorned, birthday suit, decollete, ecdysiast, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, nakedness, naturism, naturist, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, state of nature, stripper, stripteaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, unadulteration, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness, uncomplication, undress, unembellishment, unornamentation, unsophistication
 

 

 

 

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