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English
Etymology
From bare-chested + -ness.
Noun
bare-chestedness (uncountable)
- The quality of being barechested.
1989 April, Julian F. Thompson, “Illuminations”, in Goofbang Value Daze, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Hardcover, →ISBN, page 121:The last of that was said because, by then, we’d pushed each other’s shirts down off each other’s shoulders, and I had dipped my hands and face in her (adorable) bare-chestedness, where I was busily inhaling fragrances, and tasting/feeling tender, precious treasures.
1992 October, Tom Deitz, “Deadman’s Curve”, in Dreambuilder, New York, N.Y.: AvoNova, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 159:Lew stood and shucked out of his shirt and T-shirt, matching Ron’s bare-chestedness—[…]
2004, Ananya Chatterjea, “Raga (1998) and Sloka (1999): Troubling Femininity”, in Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha, Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 292:And of course, male bare-chestedness is no novelty, either in the American dance scene or the Indian one, so one wonders what the objection was about.