bareness
- noun
- /ˈbɛr.nəs/
- 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.
- And that was everyday fish walk to the community, trade off rice and fish and bareness, slightly filtered salt water, bare necessities.
Examples
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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!
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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
A space or place that has nothing in it
Being plain and without decoration
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
A cold, empty feeling that makes a place or situation seem sad
A plain simple style that lacks decoration
An empty landscape with few plants or buildings
Being simple and without decoration
A very plain and empty appearance with little or no decoration
A bare, simple style with very few details
A quality that is plain and without decoration
A very plain, simple style with no decoration or luxury
A quality of being simple and pure without decoration
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
A place or space with nothing in it and no activity
Antonyms
How Bare
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.