nudity

English

Etymology

From nude ‎ -ity. Compare Late Latin nūditās.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjudɪˌti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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^[1], 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.

   • 1865 March 5, “The Prince Napoleon's Ball.”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     M. PILS' battle-piece, representing Prince NAPOLEON leading his division at Alma, and some of M. GEROME's startling nudities.

Derived terms

• frontal nudity
• full frontal nudity

Related terms

• nude
• nudism
• nudist

Translations

the state of being without clothing on the body

• Albanian: lakuriqësi (sq) f
• Armenian: մերկություն (hy) (merkutʻyun)
• 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 (hu), ruhátlanság, csupaszság (hu), pucérság, pőreség (hu)
• 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
• Marathi: नग्नता f (nagnatā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nakenhet m or f

• Old English: nacodnes f
• Ottoman Turkish: عریانلق (ʼuryanlık)
• 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) (barahnagi)
• Telugu: నగ్నత్వము (nagnatvamu)
• Turkish: çıplaklık (tr)
• Ukrainian: нагота́ f (nahotá)

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