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bareness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bareness has 3 senses
- bareness(n = noun.state) bleakness, desolation, nakedness - a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape" is a kind of gloom, gloominess, glumness
- bareness(n = noun.state) Array - the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body); Array is a kind of nakedness, nudeness, nudity
- bareness(n = noun.attribute) starkness - an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room" is a kind of plainness
Derived form adjective bare1
Derived forms adjective bare9, adjective bare8, adjective bare4, adjective bare7, adjective bare3
ROGET THESAURUS
bareness
Divestment
N divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis, divested, bare, naked, nude, undressed, undraped, denuded, exposed, in dishabille, bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless, in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked, bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand, out at elbows, barefoot, bareback, barebacked, leafless, napless, hairless.
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