toplessness

noun

as in nudity

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Recent Examples of toplessness Johnson's exuberance bubbled over in the locker room — though there was an apparent method to his toplessness. — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 29 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toplessness
  1. nudity
  2. nakedness
  3. nude
  4. altogether
Noun
  • The nudity is also more gratuitous and the counselors more obnoxious.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • What follows is the sequence that earned You Can See Everything its R for graphic nudity.
    — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of nudity
Noun
  • But the fashionable-at-the-time nakedness of the YBAs’ desire for money, most completely embodied by Hirst, quickly became crass.
    — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Chloe Webb’s performance as Nancy Spungen, the junkie girlfriend who Sid probably murdered (the role of Nancy was originally supposed to go to Courtney Love), is breathtaking in the nakedness of its emotion.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of nakedness
Noun
  • Recognizing the fair’s growing status, galleries came equipped with significant works, including a 1917 Amedeo Modigliani nude which the Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries was offering for upward of $100 million.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Over the weekend, the group dropped a couple more clips that show one of the main characters, Lucia, nude.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of nude
Noun
  • According to my calculations, the White House methodology yields the absurd conclusion that eliminating the corporate tax altogether would boost annual household wages by up to $20,000.
    — Jason Furman, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017
Definition of altogether

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“Toplessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toplessness. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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