Definition of nakedness:

part of speech: noun

The condition of being naked; bareness; openness.

Usage examples:

• She was content to sit there in silence, dreaming her dreams; those dreams which the silent northern world so mysteriously fosters, to cover up its own nakedness and make life possible upon its sterile bosom. in "".

• Peter's face was so white that his collar and shirt seemed to be a continuation of his body- a sudden gruesome nakedness Hugh Walpole in "Fortitude".

• It was like failing to possess some essential article of dress that everybody else has, and trying to cover up one's nakedness Mary Helen Fee in "The Locusts' Years".

• Several who, when they came to us from the farmers, were decently clothed and possessed a flock of sheep, which they had earned, in a short time returned to their fastnesses in a state of nakedness and indigence, rejoicing that they had got free from the farmers, and could live as they pleased in the indulgence of their sensual appetites. Robert Gordon Latham in "The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies".