STARKNESS

bareness, starkness

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

starkness, absoluteness, utterness

(noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme; “the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

starkness (countable and uncountable, plural starknesses)

(uncountable) The state or quality of being stark.

(countable) The result or product of being stark.

Source: Wiktionary


Stark"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being stark.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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