bareness

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as in nudity
the state of having no clothes on one's body as she encountered more and more nude people at the resort, she became less conscious of her own bareness

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Recent Examples of bareness Clothes felt sensuous without overt sexuality and bareness. Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bareness
Noun
  • At the end, every element is dismantled, the squares return to emptiness, and the streets resume their rhythm.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Fall from the emptiness of his promises—and that is not a metaphor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sunday's emergency edition saw reduced full nudity compared to typical events, likely due to the cool, wet weather conditions, though some participants still rode wearing only bike helmets.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Rainbow Room activities pushed the edges of legality, and Skull was arrested on charges of overseeing public nudity, allowing dancing on a Sunday, allowing card games and football betting and serving mixed drinks when such a practice was banned, according to stories in The Tennessean.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to the Morgan, Renoir used the female nude as a way to explore the representation of form across media.
    Jane Levere, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And more and more teens are being victimized by peers using deepfake nudes.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once the emperor’s nakedness becomes common knowledge, however, the coördination problem can be solved.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Like John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese, Jaglom knows how to push a scene into realms of such emotional nakedness that the viewer starts to feel like a voyeur looking in on relationships that are none of his or her business.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Bareness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bareness. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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