nakedness

English

Etymology

From Middle English nakednesse, from Old English nacodnes (“nakedness”); equivalent to naked +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nakedness (usually uncountable, plural nakednesses)

1. The state or condition of being naked; nudity; bareness; defenselessness; undisguisedness.

Synonyms

• nakedhood (rare)
• nudity

Translations

state of being naked

• Albanian: lakuriqësi (sq)
• Catalan: nuesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裸體 / 裸体 (zh) (luǒtǐ), 赤裸 (zh) (chìluǒ)

• Danish: nøgenhed (da) c
• Dutch: naaktheid (nl)
• Estonian: alastiolek
• Finnish: alastomuus (fi)
• French: nudité (fr) f
• German: Nacktheit (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌵𐌰𐌳𐌴𐌹 f (naqadei)
• Greek: γύμνια (el) f (gýmnia)

  Ancient: γυμνότης f (gumnótēs)

• Gujarati: નાગાપણુ (nāgāpṇu)
• Hindi: नंगापन (naṅgāpan)
• Hungarian: meztelenség (hu)
• Icelandic: nekt f
• Indonesian: ketelanjangan (id)
• Italian: nudezza f, nudità (it) f
• Japanese: 裸体 (ja) (らたい, ratai)
• Korean: 벌거숭이 (ko) (beolgeosung'i)
• Macedonian: го́лота f (gólota), голо́тија f (golótija)
• Marathi: नागडेपणा m (nāgḍepṇā)
• Middle English: nakedhed, nakednesse
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nakenhet m or f

• Ottawa: bgwaashaagdiwin
• Ottoman Turkish: عریانلق (ʼuryanlık)
• Pashto: لوڅ تيا (luśtyâ)
• Persian: برهنگی (fa) (berahnegi)
• Polish: nagość (pl) f
• Portuguese: nudez (pt) f
• Russian: нагота́ (ru) f (nagotá), обнажённость (ru) f (obnažónnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: luime f, lomnochd f, nochd f
• Serbo-Croatian: golotinja (sh) f, goloća f
• Spanish: desnudez (es) f
• Tajik: бараҳнагӣ (tg) (barahnagi)
• Telugu: నగ్నత్వం (nagnatvaṁ)
• Turkish: çıplaklık (tr)
• Ukrainian: оголеність (uk) f (oholenistʹ)

See also

• full frontal nudity