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
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
30 June 2025
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
