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nakedness|ˈneɪkɪdnɪs|
[f. naked a. + -ness.]
1. The state or condition of being unclothed or destitute of clothing. Also transf. a naked person.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 392 On hungre & on ðurste,..on cyle, & on næcednysse. ― Gen. ix. 23 Swa þæt hiᵹ ne ᵹesawon heora fæder næcednisse. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 810 To yow broghte I noght elles..But feyth and nakednesse and maydenhede. a1425Cursor M. 23089 (Trin.), Bi nakudnes whenne I toke harm wiþ cloþing ȝe made me warm. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 8 Where shall be no sycknes, no necessite nor nakednes. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 39 The women.., lifting up their cloaths, shewing their nakedness. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 172 A black vaile,..through which the nakednesse of their shoulders..may be seene. 1667Milton P.L. x. 217 As Father of his Familie he clad Thir nakedness with Skins of Beasts. c1718Prior Pallas & Venus 16 Thou to be strong must put off every dress; Thy only armour is thy nakedness. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xliv. IV. 347 He concealed his nakedness with a linen towel. 1855Tennyson Maud i. x. i, Grimy nakedness dragging his trucks And laying his trams in a poison'd gloom. 1885Pall Mall G. 20 May 3/1 The fair nakednesses who look down unabashed upon the well-dressed crowd.
b. Absence of cover or concealment; the state of a thing when not cloaked or disguised in any way; a feature requiring to be kept concealed.
1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 177 Why seek'st thou then to couer with excuse, That which appeares in proper nakednesse? 1661Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 66, I would not tell you any tales, because there are nakednesses which it becomes us to cover if it be possible. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Passport, I could wish..to spy the nakedness of their hearts. 1820Shelley Liberty xvi, Till in the nakedness of false and true They stand before their Lord. 1885Manch. Exam. 30 Dec. 5/3 None of us have as yet gone to the length of avowing this design in all its nakedness.
c. Openness to attack; weakness. rare.
a1591H. Smith Serm. (1866) II. 40 It grieves me..to discover the nakedness of my countrymen. 1611Bible Gen. xlii. 9 To see the nakednes of the land you are come.
2. Destitution; bareness, poverty.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 133 By decay of the haven..it was brought in manner to miserable nakednesse and decay. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 315 This penury, nakednesse, and abiection. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 310 The lofty nakednesse of your Latinizing Barbarian. 1742Fielding J. Andrews ii. ii, He..discovered the nakedness of his pockets. 1754Pitt Lett. to Nephew iv. 22 Exposing the nakedness and emptiness of the mind. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxix. (1856) 251 It is this nakedness of resources..that makes our position one of bitterness. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life iii. iv. 95 The result would be simple intellectual nakedness.
b. Bareness due to absence of vegetation, ornament, or other accessories.
1750Johnson Rambler No. 80 ⁋4 The nakedness and asperity of the wintry world. 1821Shelley Adonais xlix, Where..fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness. 1859Jephson Brittany viii. 107 The broken arches..and desolate nakedness of the cathedral.
3. Freedom from unnecessary ornament or refinement; simplicity. rare.
1617Moryson Itin. iv. iv. iii. 379 No people of Europe..vseth lesse Ceremonyes,..doing all such thinges without any ostentation, yea with great simplicity and nakednes. 1711Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 173 Much admiring the Simplicity and Nakedness of y⊇ Style. 1711Addison Spect. No. 85 ⁋4 Nature in her Simplicity and Nakedness.
4. Absence of hairs or scales.
1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 397 This order..is further distinguished..by the softness and nakedness of the skin. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. vii. 243 In Batrachians..we find a nakedness of skin greater even than in man. |