According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
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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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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