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/bˈeənəs/
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NOUN
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an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation
I was struck by the starkness of my father's room -
a bleak and desolate atmosphere
the nakedness of the landscape - the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)
How To Use bareness In A Sentence
- The landscape on a spring day has a bracing bareness, which is not without exhilaration. The History of David Grieve
- This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in ones meditations always a sort of shock; it was deficient in the social drapery which muffles the sharpness of human contact. Chapter XLVII
- Giant sycamores line the road to Purple Hill, almost sentry-like in their winter bareness.
- This movie's main thrust is really nothing more than bareness interspersed with double entendres, pseudo witty banter, personal attacks, comic quips, and horribly off-key crooning.
- She visited him at home and was shocked by the bareness of the place.
- She was so confident in her glorious silky bareness, and her aggression resulted in an unusual flutter between my legs. Potsdamer Strasse #3
- Detached from society, they don't seem to exist beyond the bareness of the stage.
- The trees would be dreary and sad -- the sea always grey and gurly and ochone, the very roads had the look of bareness and emptiness, as though all a man's friends had marched over them, never to return. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
- Heat the heat - shrinkable sleeve, make It'shrink, covering the bareness part of the cable core.
- All the economic development of life itself takes on at its end the appearance of an attempt to get rid of the animal squalor and bareness which is what obligatory poverty really means, and to give to man the divine ease and leisure of the gods. War and strife themselves have been schools of heroism