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Starkness   /stˈɑrknɪs/   Listen
Starkness

noun
1.
The quality of being complete or utter or extreme.  Synonyms: absoluteness, utterness.
2.
An extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation.  Synonym: bareness.






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"Starkness" Quotes from Famous Books



... loneliness in the mountains, experienced the strange world of the river at night lighted by the wan radiance of glowing shrubs and plants, forced the starkness of the heights. Yet there had been through all that journeying a general resemblance to his own past on other worlds. A tree was a tree, whether it bore purple foliage or was red-veined. A rock was a rock, a river a river. They were equally ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton

... forward, steadily, across its surface. Away ahead, shone the vast, blood-red ring [15] that lit the place. All around, was spread the extraordinary desolation of stillness, that had so impressed me during my previous wanderings across its starkness. ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson



Words linked to "Starkness" :   utterness, bound, boundary, stark, bareness, limit, absoluteness, plainness



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