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Bareness

noun
1.
A bleak and desolate atmosphere.  Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness.
2.
The state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body).
3.
An extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation.  Synonym: starkness.





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"Bareness" Quotes from Famous Books



... to bareness in style, without subtlety or high imagination, the Song of Roland is yet not without grandeur; and its patriotic ardor gives it a place as the earliest of the truly national poems ...
— The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And Notes • Various
... frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there; Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where: Then were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, Leese but ...
— Shakespeare's Sonnets • William Shakespeare
... over the room, the bareness of which seemed still to impress him. Then he asked simply: "Where will a letter ...
— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith
... arranged our pipes, and was lighted only by a tallow candle. There were a few pictures on the walls, for the most part rude prints cut from the columns of the daily press and pasted up to hide the bareness of the room. Only one picture was in any way noticeable, a portrait admirably executed in pen and ink. The face was that of a young man, a very beautiful face, but one of infinite sadness. I had long been aware, although I know ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... London would have the honour of addressing the meeting on the present state of affairs between the employers and the employed, or (as he chose to term them) the idle and the industrious classes. The room was not large, but its bareness of furniture made it appear so. Unshaded gas flared down upon the lean and unwashed artisans as they entered, their eyes blinking at ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell


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