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bareness

bareness

1 5.1
A plain, empty look with no decorations
  • noun
  • /ˈbɛr.nəs/
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  • The room's bareness made it feel cold and unwelcoming, lacking any decorations or personal touches.

And that was everyday fish walk to the community, trade off rice and fish and bareness, slightly filtered salt water, bare necessities.

Examples

  • He pitied the bareness of my life, and he wanted to help.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The aching bareness of the region was a premonition of the encroachment of the dust, the aridity, the heat, and glare—the true desert.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • to prefer the bareness of a mountain to a warm soft bed!

  • Yet he went on to say how much he was exactly affected by the bareness of one narrative.

    Academic text (1997)
  • She looks at the bareness of the place.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • In some areas, fine paragrass tried to green over the bareness.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I like the emptiness of Wyoming, the bareness.

    Blog text (32)
  • That bareness looked like a strip of torn skin in the wooded and desolate landscape.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Then I began to find beauty in it and liked the bareness and the plain brown of the hills in the dry season, and the way the folds in the hills where some dampness tended to linger would fill up with grasses, shrubs, and other flowering plants.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • In the painting, the artist embraced the bareness of the landscape, showcasing its natural simplicity without any clutter.

Synonyms

emptiness
vsbareness
14 3.6

A space or place that has nothing in it

is about lack of decoration rather than only lacking inner things
simplicity
vsbareness
10 2.7

Being plain and without decoration

includes that lack but often implies emptiness as well
blankness
vsbareness
4 4.3

A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion

is about plainness rather than having no marks or internal content
bleakness
vsbareness
3 6.3

A cold, empty feeling that makes a place or situation seem sad

is neutral about emotion, focusing on plainness without desolation
severity
vsbareness
1 6.0

A plain simple style that lacks decoration

is more general, applying also to simple empty looks
nakedness
vsbareness
1 5.6

An empty landscape with few plants or buildings

is more neutral, meaning plain or empty without bleak feeling
plainness
vsbareness
1 3.5

Being simple and without decoration

adds a stronger sense of empty space rather than style alone
starkness
vsbareness
1 6.3

A very plain and empty appearance with little or no decoration

is less extreme, covering plainness that may include emptiness
spareness
vsbareness
1 8.1

A bare, simple style with very few details

focuses more on absence of decoration than on small quantity
simpleness
vsbareness
2.3

A quality that is plain and without decoration

has identical meaning but differs only in wording or form
austereness
vsbareness
8.6

A very plain, simple style with no decoration or luxury

is a broader term for plain or empty appearance without luxury
chasteness
vsbareness
  • Literature
8.6

A quality of being simple and pure without decoration

is about plain or empty appearance rather than purity or virtue
voidness
vsbareness
8.1

A feeling of emptiness after something important ends

focuses on absence of ornament rather than total inner emptiness
vacantness
vsbareness
6.0

A place or space with nothing in it and no activity

highlights surface plainness rather than being unused or unfilled

Antonyms

8 3.2

A full, deep quality in taste, sound, or color that pleases the senses

A thing or style with many decorative details

How Bare

emptiness
14 3.6
bareness
1 5.1

Surface Forms

bareness singular
barenesses plural

Morphology

bareness = bare (transparent) = bare + ness

The noun is formed directly from the adjective 'bare' with a standard nominalizing suffix '-ness', so the meaning is predictable.

Etymology

Bareness comes from bare ('without' or 'empty') plus the ending -ness that shows a 'state'. Think of a bare room with no furniture; bareness is the state of being plain or without decoration.