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bareness

bareness

6.0
Being without clothes or covering on the body
  • noun
  • /ˈbɛr.nəs/
  • NSFW
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  • After the winter storm, the bareness of the trees revealed their intricate branches against the sky.

Examples

  • Their bareness, that of an unlovely body in the sun, offended him, and the bewildered looks of the pale men and women who lived there aroused in him an irrational anger.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • I hopped off to school in a short skirt and tank, proudly displaying my lovely bareness and gruesome battle scars.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The child's bareness made her shiver in the cold wind as she played outside.

  • He felt embarrassed by the sudden bareness of his feet in the sand at the beach.

Synonyms

nudity
vsbareness
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69 4.6

Being without clothes on the body

stresses exposure of specific body parts rather than overall unclothing
nakedness
vsbareness
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15 2.8

Being without clothes and feeling exposed

emphasizes exposed parts rather than a whole lack of clothing
undress
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5 3.3

The state of wearing no or only some clothes

refers to exposed or uncovered parts rather than partial dressing
nudeness
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1 5.3

The state of being without clothes on the body

focuses more on visible exposed areas than on total unclothing

How Exposed

bareness
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exposure
38 4.6

Surface Forms

bareness singular
barenesses plural

Morphology

bareness = bare (transparent) = bare + ness

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ness' to 'bare' to mean the state of being exposed or unclothed; meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Bareness comes from bare ('without clothes or cover') and -ness ('state'), so it means being uncovered or exposed. A helpful image is bare feet on a cold floor, which shows the idea of physical exposure.