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Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly less clothing than expected by the conventions of a particular culture and situation, and in particular exposing the bare skin of intimate parts and has analogous uses.
Terminology
Although nude, naked and bare have the same objective meaning (i.e. not covered by clothing), they have differing subjective connotations, which partly match their differing etymologies ("nude" originally had a meaning of "plain, bare, unadorned" in a broader sense when introduced into English from Latin nudus, originally only as a legal term 'unsupported by proof' since 1531, only used a artistic euphemism for physical nakedness in 1631, while "bare" and "naked" derive from the common early English words, with many cognates, for "uncovered"). Some consider one term more appropriate than the other. The book Nude, Naked, Stripped suggests that these three terms define a continuum ranging from artistic or tasteful absence of clothing by choice at one end, to a forced or mandatory condition of being without clothes (e.g. strip search) at the other. Various synonyms refer specifically -often as a negative- to the absence or rather removal of clothing, such as denuded, divested, peeled, stripped, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, undressed, unrobed.
Another euphemism for the embarrassing nudity is 'exposed' to glances, no less then to the elements; not only the expression 'to show skin' refers to nudity in terms of the dermis, in Manx Gaelic jiarg-rooisht and Scottish Gaelic dearg rùisgte 'stark naked' is literally 'red' naked as either exposure makes one 'blush'.
Partial nudity
As the concept of nudity often refers more to perception by the observer than the mere description whether someone's body is covered or not, there can be a grey area, known as partial nudity. Thus, while someone exposing 'private parts' is often called 'naked' regardless of garments on other body parts (indeed, an 'undressed' state is even considered by some more sexually arousing than full nudity) hence the terms half-naked and, a fortiori, near-naked refer to a body that is not completely exposed, but showing more than is customary or considered quite acceptable, at least in a given context. In the Old testament (Leviticus, Chapter 16) God orders the prophet Moses, about the high priest: He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy vestments, clearly diffrenetiating between the 'strategical' zone which is the criterion of 'nakedness' and the more preentably part of the human body. Till today even wearing boxer shorts, sufficient to guard the modesty of a shooto fighter, is described as near-naked in Japan because the appropriate kimono-type uniform associated with traditional martial arts is missing. Half-naked is also used for a degree of skin exposure that is not offensive (as no delicate zone is shown) but still barer than 'fully dressed', such as a man in bare torso. Yet for swimming the Japanese man feels comfortable in a most revealing fundoshi. More on [ Nudity ]
Dorm mates at USC would not stop teasing when I started nude figure drawing for the first time "draw me wearing this... and only this"
DiHuang (Diana Huang) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:48:10 -0000
Dorm mates at USC would not stop teasing when I started nude figure drawing for the first time "draw me wearing this... and only this"
@MissBrittanyB artists sit around and draw nude models for figure drawing sessions with DJ's... And food
miyabailey (Miya Bailey) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:36:14 -0000
@MissBrittanyB artists sit around and draw nude models for figure drawing sessions with DJ's... And food
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