What's the difference between nakedness and openness?

Nakedness


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of being naked.
  • (n.) The privy parts; the genitals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At one time I mistook this nakedness for freedom, but I don't any more.
  • (2) Shevchenko, who has been imprisoned five times for her activism, and was once abducted by Ukrainian secret services, says she is frequently asked to address the "apparent contradiction" in feminists using their nakedness to protest, she says.
  • (3) Perhaps, suggests the Gemora Sanhedrin, facing up to the oddity of the verse about Ham seeing his father's nakedness, it means either that Ham castrated his father, or that he sodomised him.
  • (4) He sports a beard, conceals his nakedness with a guitar and appears in the credits as "Turk Thrust".
  • (5) The most frequent adverse subjective sensations were problems of nakedness when seen by healthy women, when "seening themselves" and when seen by the husband (partner).
  • (6) Their nakedness, or the warm water, or the comfort of the old routine dislodges their sticking-plaster emotions and shows the wound beneath.
  • (7) Each year, 50,000 Xhosa boys descend on the vast province to undergo the secretive ritual – including circumcision by a "traditional surgeon" and one month's seclusion in nakedness.
  • (8) What he misses most about clothes are pockets ("Somewhere to put my hands"), and his nakedness forces him to see the varicose veins on his legs, "which I don't like".
  • (9) Flabby nakedness happens, so does eating, so does looking like crap – it’s the human condition, whatever your gender.
  • (10) Of course, people talk about our nakedness, but they are also listening to our message."
  • (11) But here is the thing about being an only child: nothing, and certainly not those glamorous childhood spells as a tourist in other people's families, quite prepared me for the reality of it, nor for how ill equipped I would be to navigate the inter-sibling rivalry, the nakedness of the competition, the bare-knuckle obsession with justice.
  • (12) It is as though, in other people's houses, we become aware of our own nakedness.
  • (13) But a loosely fitting shirt and maybe some trousers will, far from causing you to overheat, actually offer some protection against the sun as well as preventing nakedness.
  • (14) It's nothing new that some fashion people dress, well, weird, but it sometimes takes someone like Weird Al to act like the little boy who points out the emperor's nakedness to say what is really going on here.
  • (15) Shem and Japheth had walked backwards into the tent with a garment over their shoulders and, without looking behind them at Noah, covered him and "saw not their father's nakedness".
  • (16) This seems a bit of a stretch from "seeing his nakedness", but we know the Bible has a quaint way with sexual deeds: lying with each other, knowing each other – and why would Ham's offspring be condemned to servility for an innocent incident?
  • (17) Last month the Guardian reported that in training men and women from other military units in interrogation and "tactical questioning" – the initial interrogation of captured prisoners – F Branch instructed them to use threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness, in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions.
  • (18) In all, Shiner's team has documented 59 allegations of detainees being hooded, 11 of electric shocks, 122 of sound deprivation through the use of earmuffs, 52 of sleep deprivation, 160 of sight deprivation, including 117 using blackened goggles, 132 of the use of stress positions, 39 of enforced nakedness, and 18 allegations that detainees were kept awake by pornographic DVDs played on laptops.
  • (19) Applying piracy legislation to peaceful protesters exposes the nakedness of the prosecuting emperor.
  • (20) Opened in 1890, the Forth Railway Bridge, in all its steel nakedness, was one of the wonders of the modern world.

Openness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being open.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
  • (3) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (5) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (6) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
  • (7) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
  • (8) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
  • (9) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (10) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
  • (11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
  • (12) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
  • (14) At 100 microM-ACh the apparent open time became shorter probably due to channel blockade by ACh molecules.
  • (15) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
  • (16) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (17) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
  • (18) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
  • (19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (20) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.

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