bareness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a bleak and desolate atmosphere
noun the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)
noun an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation

From bare + -ness.

The winter bareness spread drearily over it now. — The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The reproach of bareness will not long hang over the town. — Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland), George Birkbeck Norman Hill
For its bareness was due merely to the absence of superfluities. — Helen Vardon's confession, R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

bleakness, desolation, nakedness

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