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Meanings of bareness in English

Portuguese
desolação
Catalan
desolació
Spanish
desolación

A bleak and desolate atmosphere.

desolação
Catalan
despullament
Spanish
pobreza

An extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation.

despullament
Synonyms
Examples for "starkness"
Examples for "starkness"
1
Her first impression was of the starkness of a military barracks.
Swan Song
2
I admire strength with anybody, but the starkness of the sagas shocks me.
Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
3
The haunting starkness of Darkness is illustrated by the 1981 BBC test card.
The Guardian
4
Chance's sparkling flow is a perfect match to the starkness of Blake's production work.
The Guardian
5
Along that hot road the spectre of Zurich pursued me, in all its starkness.
Alone
Usage of bareness in English
1
The bareness of extreme poverty marked everything on which my eyes rested.
A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieu...
2
Her feet, her little feet-theirbareness no longer troubled her-leftthe ground.
Parisian Points of View
3
The hospital-like bareness of the room evinced a simple taste in the owner.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
4
The purple shadows of the palm-trees intensified the bareness of the sunny desert.
There was a King in Egypt
5
The bareness of the squalid room made the pain of it more poignant.
Of Human Bondage
6
His fresh young nature revolted at the dinginess and bareness of the surroundings.
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn
7
When I say the bareness, I mean the absence of woods and hedges.
A Little Tour in France
8
She had seen nothing but the bareness, the coldness of it.
Youth Challenges
9
Two or three small rugs relieved the bareness of the floor.
A Girl of the Commune
10
But the drifting leaves hid the bareness, and magic covered everything.
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
11
The big, luxurious cake seemed to emphasize the bareness and loneliness.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
12
Tell him, Priscilla, of the bareness and hardness of the life.
The Place Beyond the Winds
13
No doubt this is a partial explanation of the bareness of American politics.
A Preface to Politics
14
It was a summer-furnished place, handsome but with the customary bareness.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
15
But the white fog shut out to-day even their winter bareness.
T. Tembarom
16
Their bareness and boldness startled the convent-bred girl, even horrified her.
The Guests Of Hercules
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Translations for bareness
Portuguese
desolação
Bareness through the time
Bareness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common