Nudists

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A group of individuals who choose to engage in social activities without clothing for reasons including body positivity and personal freedom
2. People who embrace nudity as a lifestyle choice, often promoting acceptance of the human body in a non-sexual context
3. Individuals who participate in communal settings without garments, advocating for naturalism and the comfort of being unclothed

Etymology: Nudists are people who go unclothed, and the plural simply follows "nudist," which joins the adjective "nude" to the suffix "-ist." That suffix has a long pedigree: it passed from Ancient Greek "-istēs," which named a person who practised or followed something, through Latin "-ista" and Old French "-iste" into Middle English, where "-ist" became a productive ending for people defined by a belief or activity. The adjective "nude" came into English from Latin "nudus," meaning bare or naked, and it reached English through French. Its family includes words for bareness of many kinds, so the suffix and the root meet in a word that describes a person by the state of their body.

Synonyms: naturists