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Definition of Naturism

1. Noun. Going without clothes as a social practice.

Definition of Naturism

1. n. The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

Definition of Naturism

1. Noun. The belief in or practice of going nude or unclad in social and usually mixed-gender groups, specifically either in cultures where this is not the norm or for health reasons. ¹

2. Noun. The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Naturism

1. nudism [n -S] - See also: nudism

Medical Definition of Naturism

1. The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Naturism

Literary usage of Naturism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lower Niger and Its Tribes by Arthur Glyn Leonard (1906)
"a CHAPTER I NATURAL RELIGION DEFINED AND THE TERM naturism JUSTIFIED To define this natural evolution of religion accurately and truthfully, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"naturism, the term proposed by Réville to designate the worship of nature. ... As a theory of religion naturism exhibits three phases: I. Ethnographic ..."

3. Recent Advances in Theistic Philosophy of Religion by James Lindsay (1897)
"So, too, the primitive naturism which Professor Pfleiderer postulates — somewhat gratuitously low in type, it would almost seem—as the original religion, ..."

4. Ibiza, Formentera by Roland Mischke, Berthold Schwarz (2001)
"naturism / Nudism Ibi/.a's official naturist beaches are the Platja des Cavallet near the salinas, Aigua Blanca in the northeast and Platja de ses Illetes ..."

5. Ibiza Formentera Explore the World by GeoCenter International Limited, Roland Mischke, Berthold Schwarz (2001)
"naturism / Nudism Ibiza's official naturist beaches are the Platja des Cavallet near the salinas, Aigua Blanca in the northeast and Platja de ses Illetes ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"According to Pfleiderer the original religion must have been a kind of indistinct, chaotic naturism, being an lilt/ration of the natural phenomena as living ..."

7. Social Institutions in Their Origin, Growth, and Interconnection by Denton Jaques Snider (1901)
"Thus the morphological Order starts with Nature-Religion, in which the man (subjectively) and the God (objectively) are dominated by both naturism and ..."

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