Nude or Naked?

[JackLuis]

What’s the Difference Between Naked and Nude?

And as the late great humorist Lewis Grizzard once pointed out, “Naked is when you ain’t got no clothes on. Nekkid is when you ain’t got no clothes on and you’re up to something.”

 

[TxRad]

Nude is when you have no clothing on.

Naked is when you realize you have no clothing on and there are other people around.

 

[HeyAll]

I learned in an art class that naked is when you're in the middle of undressing or doing whatever.

Nude is when you're posing and/or letting someone watch.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I think of "nude" as being without clothing, but with no sexual connotation. A model might pose nude for an artist, or a person might sunbathe nude or a person is nude when taking a shower.

"Naked" has a sexual aspect, such as preparing for sex. A stripper who has just removed all her clothing might refer to herself as a "nude dancer" but, as far as I am concerned, she is naked on the stage. Even if there is no physical contact with her by any of the watchers, they are thinking sexual thoughts.

 

[Handley_Page]

I think of it as "Nude" is an end in itself,
Naked is nude with something further to happen

PS. Ain't she pretty ?

 

[topace]

I think of it as "Nude" is an end in itself,
Naked is nude with something further to happen

Sounds about right to me.

Nude - no clothes like right before a shower
Naked - before you and your partner get between the sheets for a fun time makin' love

 

[damppanties]

Naked is for porn, nude is for erotica.

 

[Carnevil9]

In my view, nude means unadorned; unclothed, but in a natural way, as if that is how you were meant to be.

Naked means stripped bare; the clothing you normally wear has been removed.

Yeah, it amounts to the same thing, but nude implies that it's normal, naked implies that it's not.

 

[TE999]

Statues and sculptures are thought of as being nude.

People are always naked, even under their clothes.

 

[Boxlicker101]

By the way, if the woman in the OP is unclothed behind that sheet or towel, she is naked.

 

[lovecraft68]

In my view, nude means unadorned; unclothed, but in a natural way, as if that is how you were meant to be.

Naked means stripped bare; the clothing you normally wear has been removed.

Yeah, it amounts to the same thing, but nude implies that it's normal, naked implies that it's not.

As in she was forced to strip and stood there naked and humiliated, not nude and humiliated.

Got it!

 

[YDB95]

The way I've always used it is this: "Nude" is if someone else can see you and you're happy about it. "Naked" is if someone else can - or might - see you and it wouldn't be by choice (i.e. walking in on you in the shower). That said, I don't always stick to that distinction with my use of those two words in my stories!

 

[i_would]

"I've seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked." -- Malcolm Reynolds

Firefly - Trash

 

[Tzara]

The Naked and the Nude
Robert Graves

For me, the naked and the nude
(By lexicographers construed
As synonyms that should express
The same deficiency of dress
Or shelter) stand as wide apart
As love from lies, or truth from art.

Lovers without reproach will gaze
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will see
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess when
She mounts her lion among men.

The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin.

The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometime nude!

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

i like this.. good stuff