BARENESS

bareness, starkness

(noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; “I was struck by the starkness of my father’s room”

bareness

(noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)

bleakness, desolation, bareness, nakedness

(noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere; “the nakedness of the landscape”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bareness (countable and uncountable, plural barenesses)

The state of being bare.

Anagrams

• bearness

Source: Wiktionary


Bare"ness, n.

Definition: The state of being bare.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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7 February 2025

STORY

(noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; “he writes stories for the magazines”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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