Meaning & use
starkness
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The quality of being bare, harsh, or severely simple, without ornamentation or softness.
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The starkness of the desert landscape was both beautiful and unsettling.
The report described the starkness of the economic downturn in blunt statistics.
A note on using this word
Starkness often carries connotations of both visual bareness and emotional bluntness, as in a 'starkness of truth.'
Words with a similar meaning
bleaknessseverity
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Words with an opposite meaning
lushness
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