The state of being without clothes; total lack of covering or protection.
From Old English 'nacod' or 'naked,' which comes from Proto-Germanic 'nakwadaz.' The suffix '-ness' turns the adjective into a noun. The root may be related to Sanskrit 'nagna,' suggesting an ancient Indo-European origin.
Interestingly, nearly every language that descends from Indo-European has a word for 'naked' that sounds similar—it's one of those basic human concepts so ancient that the word barely changed over thousands of years of language evolution.
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