shirtlessness en · NOUN
Etymology
From shirtless + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Absence of shirts.
An organizational crisis erupted, which resulted in reverting to a ban on all shirtlessness. Outraged, six gay men flouted the policy, arguing that shirtlessness was a question of liberation[…]
2002, Tom Warner, Never going back: a history of queer activism in Canada, page 312: