Nudity \Nu"di*ty\, n.; pl. Nudities. [Cf. F. nudit['e].]
1. The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.
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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.
[1913 Webster]
There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any
more than in painting, to design and color obscene
nudities. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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29 Moby Thesaurus words for "nudity":
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Nudity \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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