Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Nudity

Nudity , noun

[Compare French nudité.]

1.
The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.
2.
(Fine Arts) That which is nude or naked; naked part; undrapped or unclothed portion;
(Fine Arts) the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense.
There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities. — Dryden