Refers to the state of being naked or a naked human body. Often used in artistic, medical, or descriptive contexts.
美術の授業で裸体のデッサンをした。
We did sketches of nude figures in art class.
彼は裸体のまま部屋を歩き回った。
He walked around the room completely naked.
裸婦 specifically refers to a nude female figure as an artistic subject, while 裸体 is a general term for any naked body, male or female, without an art connotation.
裸体 is a formal, literary term for a naked body often used in art criticism, whereas ヌード is the more casual loanword used in everyday and media contexts.
裸体 specifically means a nude body (of either sex), whereas 女体 refers to a woman's body regardless of whether it is clothed.
stark naked body; nude body
seminude; half-naked
nude picture; nude painting
nudism
Compound of 裸 (ra, 'naked') and 体 (tai, 'body'). The reading ら is the on'yomi of 裸, and たい is the on'yomi of 体.