nudityn.

Brit.

/ˈnjuːdᵻti/, U.S.

/ˈn(j)udədi/

Forms: 1600s nuditie, 1600s– nudity.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nudité; Latin nuditat-, nuditas.

Etymology: < French nudité nakedness (mid 14th cent. in Middle French), poverty, bareness (late 15th cent.), (chiefly in plural) naked part of the body which is usually clothed (1687; 1651 with reference to their depiction in painting) and its etymon post-classical Latin nuditat-, nuditas nakedness (Vulgate), poverty (5th cent.) < classical Latin nūdus nude adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Italian nudità deprivation (a1243), nakedness (a1306 in form nuditate), (in plural) naked part of the body (a1585).

a. The state or condition of being naked; appearance in the nude; nakedness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun]

nakedOE

nakednessOE

nakedheadc1330

nudity1611

the (also a) state of nature1802

nudeness1848

in the nude1856

clotheslessness1883

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripped or bare condition

nudationa1500

bareness1552

nudity1611

nakedness1750

denudation1816

starkness1824

denudement1831

strippedness1856

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Nudité, nuditie, nakednesse.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Nudity, bareness, nakedness.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) i. 30 Why should Nudity be so offensive, since a very great part of the World yet defies Cloaths.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 84 My breasts, which in the state of nudity are ever capital points,..maintain'd a firmness and steady independence..and invited the test of the touch.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. i. 27 I should have thought the nudity might have been quoted as existing in a different part of the body.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 24 To bend forward exposes the back to partial nudity.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 360 Picard, who..attempted to introduce nudity and other shameful practices.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xiv. 167 There was, as I walked along,..streets full of jumbled bits of colour like a damaged kaleidoscope: yellow,..dazzling white, the brown nudity of an undraped shoulder.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xx. 362 Over these obstructions..were falling and stumbling men, women, children, babies, in all degrees of nudity.

1988 Observer 8 May (Colour Suppl.) 28/3 Nudity, or anyway near-nudity, is nothing new at Cannes.

b. In extended use: poverty, lack; bareness, starkness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something > lacking or being without something

missOE

tharningc1175

missinga1375

lacking1377

wantingc1390

necessitya1393

destitutiona1440

poverty?1440

misture1563

unprovidedness1606

unprovision1631

wantingness1643

carency1655

nudity1656

destituteness1818

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Nudity,..want of any thing, poverty.

1678 A. Marvell Def. John Howe 7 They would have found a Nudity in the Creator, and did implicitly reject their fault upon him.

1705 J. Browne Moon-calf 4 Nature abhorring Nudity in the Moon, as much as some of your World do in a Maidenhead.

1706 D. Defoe Hymn to Peace 22 We Crowds of Characters forbear..That Foreign Countries may not see, Our Ecelesiastic Nudity.

1821 M. De Jersey Toaz Let. Nov. in R. L. R. Toase Mem. (1859) vi. 96 But he stops to look at the magnitude of his offences, his poverty and nudity.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xx. 351 Many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities.

1878 H. James Europeans I. i. 24 The room had a certain vulgar nudity, the bed and the window were curtainless.

1884 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 219/1 It may appear that I insist too much upon the nudity of the Provençal horizon... But it is an exquisite bareness.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 4/3 In another [plate] the august nudity of Downing-street is made interesting.

1998 W. N. Herbert Laurelude 53 The frost is touching everything before the sun: each blade has a pencil nudity.

2. A nude figure, esp. as represented in painting, drawing, or sculpture. Frequently in plural. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure > nude or the nude

naked1622

nudity1662

nude1708

naked1744

nude1760

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 45 Divers Nudities, and Clad Figures.

1682 T. Shadwell Medal of John Bayes Epist. And a good Drawer, in that time, may observe enough to make a Nuditie of him.

1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2003 Why might not..the Painter's Complexion be known by his Pictures..as supposing that the Sanguine do naturally run upon Pourtraits, Poetical Histories, Nudities, &c. The Cholerick upon Battel-pieces.

1758 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 14 Apr. (1846) III. 349 He had, besides, a fine collection of drawings after nudities.

1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 60 The few nudities which he [sc. Fra Bartolomeo] allowed himself to exhibit, shew sufficient intelligence and still more style.

1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 5 Fat Graces and other plump nudities by Rubens.

1894 Athenæum 5 May 583/3 The charming nudity who forms the leading element..of this picture.

1941 Econ. Hist. Rev. 11 9 Culture has demands to which homage must be paid. New and more costly styles of building;..the avenues of posturing nudities.

1996 19th-cent. Lit. 50 496 Had Melville been thoroughly acquainted with his own powers, he would have confined himself to his gambols with his immaculate nudities.

3. In plural. The genitals (or occasionally other parts of the body) when exposed to view. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]

shapea1000

shameOE

i-cundeOE

memberc1300

privy memberc1325

kindc1330

privitiesc1375

harness1382

shameful parts1382

genitoriesa1387

partc1390

tailc1390

genitalsa1393

thingc1405

genitalc1450

privy parts1533

secret1535

loin?1541

genitures1548

filthy parts1553

shamefulness1561

ware1561

meatc1564

natural places1569

secret members1577

lady ware1592

natural parts1601

lady's ware1608

gear1611

private parts1623

groin1631

pudendums1634

natural1650

privacies1656

sex1664

secrecyc1675

nudities1677

affair1749

sexual parts1753

person1824

sex organ1847

privates1940

naughty bits1972

1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer v. 77 That you deface the nudities of Pictures, and little Statues, only because they are not real.

1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iii. 174 I was much scandalized to see Statues with nudities here.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 94 They took men with their heels upward, and hurry'd them about in such an undecent manner as to expose their Nuditys.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 17 The Man who shews his Heart, Is hooted for his Nudities, and scorn'd.

1789 ‘A. Pasquin’ Poems I. 28 Here, friend, unpin this garment from my side, Go bind it round you straight..And hide your nudities, I'm shock'd to see 'em.

1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body xxxi. 117 Nudities should be confined to the garden of Paradise.

a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xxiv. 166 The King wore..the highland dress... Some are objecting to this dress, particularly on so large a man, whose nudities [sc. knees] were no longer attractive.

1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row v. 50 The mystery had ceased, and the whole hospital was aware that Hazzard lived in a top-floor back room in Roper's Row and that his bedroom was also his larder. Bullard had uncovered all those nice little nudities.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nudity
释义	nudityn. Brit. /ˈnjuːdᵻti/, U.S. /ˈn(j)udədi/ Forms: 1600s nuditie, 1600s– nudity. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nudité; Latin nuditat-, nuditas. Etymology: < French nudité nakedness (mid 14th cent. in Middle French), poverty, bareness (late 15th cent.), (chiefly in plural) naked part of the body which is usually clothed (1687; 1651 with reference to their depiction in painting) and its etymon post-classical Latin nuditat-, nuditas nakedness (Vulgate), poverty (5th cent.) < classical Latin nūdus nude adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Italian nudità deprivation (a1243), nakedness (a1306 in form nuditate), (in plural) naked part of the body (a1585). 1. a. The state or condition of being naked; appearance in the nude; nakedness. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun] nakedOE nakedOE nakednessOE nakedheadc1330 nudity1611 the (also a) state of nature1802 nudeness1848 in the nude1856 clotheslessness1883 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripped or bare condition nudationa1500 bareness1552 nudity1611 nakedness1750 denudation1816 starkness1824 denudement1831 strippedness1856 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Nudité, nuditie, nakednesse. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Nudity, bareness, nakedness. 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) i. 30 Why should Nudity be so offensive, since a very great part of the World yet defies Cloaths. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 84 My breasts, which in the state of nudity are ever capital points,..maintain'd a firmness and steady independence..and invited the test of the touch. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. i. 27 I should have thought the nudity might have been quoted as existing in a different part of the body. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 24 To bend forward exposes the back to partial nudity. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 360 Picard, who..attempted to introduce nudity and other shameful practices. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xiv. 167 There was, as I walked along,..streets full of jumbled bits of colour like a damaged kaleidoscope: yellow,..dazzling white, the brown nudity of an undraped shoulder. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xx. 362 Over these obstructions..were falling and stumbling men, women, children, babies, in all degrees of nudity. 1988 Observer 8 May (Colour Suppl.) 28/3 Nudity, or anyway near-nudity, is nothing new at Cannes. b. In extended use: poverty, lack; bareness, starkness. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something > lacking or being without something missOE tharningc1175 missinga1375 lacking1377 wantingc1390 necessitya1393 destitutiona1440 poverty?1440 misture1563 unprovidedness1606 unprovision1631 wantingness1643 carency1655 nudity1656 destituteness1818 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Nudity,..want of any thing, poverty. 1678 A. Marvell Def. John Howe 7 They would have found a Nudity in the Creator, and did implicitly reject their fault upon him. 1705 J. Browne Moon-calf 4 Nature abhorring Nudity in the Moon, as much as some of your World do in a Maidenhead. 1706 D. Defoe Hymn to Peace 22 We Crowds of Characters forbear..That Foreign Countries may not see, Our Ecelesiastic Nudity. 1821 M. De Jersey Toaz Let. Nov. in R. L. R. Toase Mem. (1859) vi. 96 But he stops to look at the magnitude of his offences, his poverty and nudity. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xx. 351 Many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities. 1878 H. James Europeans I. i. 24 The room had a certain vulgar nudity, the bed and the window were curtainless. 1884 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 219/1 It may appear that I insist too much upon the nudity of the Provençal horizon... But it is an exquisite bareness. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 4/3 In another [plate] the august nudity of Downing-street is made interesting. 1998 W. N. Herbert Laurelude 53 The frost is touching everything before the sun: each blade has a pencil nudity. 2. A nude figure, esp. as represented in painting, drawing, or sculpture. Frequently in plural. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure > nude or the nude naked1622 nudity1662 nude1708 naked1744 nude1760 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 45 Divers Nudities, and Clad Figures. 1682 T. Shadwell Medal of John Bayes Epist. And a good Drawer, in that time, may observe enough to make a Nuditie of him. 1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2003 Why might not..the Painter's Complexion be known by his Pictures..as supposing that the Sanguine do naturally run upon Pourtraits, Poetical Histories, Nudities, &c. The Cholerick upon Battel-pieces. 1758 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 14 Apr. (1846) III. 349 He had, besides, a fine collection of drawings after nudities. 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 60 The few nudities which he [sc. Fra Bartolomeo] allowed himself to exhibit, shew sufficient intelligence and still more style. 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 5 Fat Graces and other plump nudities by Rubens. 1894 Athenæum 5 May 583/3 The charming nudity who forms the leading element..of this picture. 1941 Econ. Hist. Rev. 11 9 Culture has demands to which homage must be paid. New and more costly styles of building;..the avenues of posturing nudities. 1996 19th-cent. Lit. 50 496 Had Melville been thoroughly acquainted with his own powers, he would have confined himself to his gambols with his immaculate nudities. 3. In plural. The genitals (or occasionally other parts of the body) when exposed to view. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] shapea1000 shameOE i-cundeOE memberc1300 privy memberc1325 kindc1330 privitiesc1375 harness1382 shameful parts1382 genitoriesa1387 partc1390 tailc1390 genitalsa1393 thingc1405 genitalc1450 privy parts1533 secret1535 loin?1541 genitures1548 filthy parts1553 shamefulness1561 ware1561 meatc1564 natural places1569 secret members1577 lady ware1592 natural parts1601 lady's ware1608 gear1611 private parts1623 groin1631 pudendums1634 natural1650 privacies1656 sex1664 secrecyc1675 nudities1677 affair1749 sexual parts1753 person1824 sex organ1847 privates1940 naughty bits1972 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer v. 77 That you deface the nudities of Pictures, and little Statues, only because they are not real. 1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iii. 174 I was much scandalized to see Statues with nudities here. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 94 They took men with their heels upward, and hurry'd them about in such an undecent manner as to expose their Nuditys. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 17 The Man who shews his Heart, Is hooted for his Nudities, and scorn'd. 1789 ‘A. Pasquin’ Poems I. 28 Here, friend, unpin this garment from my side, Go bind it round you straight..And hide your nudities, I'm shock'd to see 'em. 1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body xxxi. 117 Nudities should be confined to the garden of Paradise. a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xxiv. 166 The King wore..the highland dress... Some are objecting to this dress, particularly on so large a man, whose nudities [sc. knees] were no longer attractive. 1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row v. 50 The mystery had ceased, and the whole hospital was aware that Hazzard lived in a top-floor back room in Roper's Row and that his bedroom was also his larder. Bullard had uncovered all those nice little nudities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611
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