[
UK
/nˈeɪkɪdnəs/
]
NOUN
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a bleak and desolate atmosphere
the nakedness of the landscape - characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
- the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
How To Use nakedness In A Sentence
- These are all labels, clothing, which cover our nakedness because we do not take cognisance of who we are. Times, Sunday Times
- Thirst, hunger , and nakedness are positive evils.
- That was the reason why they and their children had been all their lives on the verge of starvation and nakedness, whilst their 'betters' -- who did nothing but the thinking -- went clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- Nobody was going to waste their time spying on my nakedness; it's a singularly unedifying sight. GALILEE
- Looking at her toes now, they clamored for attention in their nakedness.
- If you can't get a rag out of somebody's garbage, the steward of any estate will give you something to cover your nakedness.
- Her nakedness yielded to him, radiant, warm, odorous and lavish-limbed, enfolded him like a shining cloud, enfolded him like water with a liquid life; and like a cloud of vapour or like waters circumfluent in space the liquid letters of speech, symbols of the element of mystery, flowed forth over his brain. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- I almost began hoping my nakedness had not offended any Moslem sensitivities.
- Once the initial awareness of nakedness had been absorbed, the mind settles down serenely to watch the dance.
- Her youth and nakedness, which at times is accentuated by a circlet of flowers worn in her hair, is emblem enough.
