Definition of Starkness

1. Noun. The quality of being complete or utter or extreme. "The starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections"

Exact synonyms: Absoluteness, Utterness
Generic synonyms: Bound, Boundary, Limit
Derivative terms: Stark, Stark

2. Noun. An extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation. "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room"
Exact synonyms: Bareness
Generic synonyms: Plainness
Derivative terms: Bare, Bare, Bare, Bare, Bare, Stark, Stark

Definition of Starkness

1. n. The quality or state of being stark.

Definition of Starkness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being stark. ¹

2. Noun. The result or product of being stark. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Starkness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Starkness

stark bollock naked
stark naked
stark nakedness
stark raving mad
starked
starken
starkened
starkens
starker
starkers
starkest
starkeyite
starking
starkish
starkly
starkness
starknesses
starks
starless
starlet
starlets
starlight
starlights
starlike
starling
starlinglike
starlings
starlit
starly
starman

Literary usage of Starkness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From School to Higher Education: Factors Affecting the Choices of Grade 12 ...by Michael Cosser, Jacques Du Toit by Michael Cosser, Jacques Du Toit (2002)
"The starkness of the population group differential reinforces the starkness of the gender differential, making for a powerful combination of income ..."

2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... thou the men With thy starkness overweening amidst thy rocky den ! Thou cruel! now henceforward on hard days shalt thou fall, Since thou wouldst be ..."

3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"Strong passion's daring sees not aught to dare: The frost-locked starkness of his frame low-bent. His voice's penury of tones long spent, He felt not; ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"But yet redeemed it in days of darkness, And shapes and signs of the final wrath, When death, in hideous and ghastly starkness, Stood on his path. ..."

5. Collected Plays by Stephen Phillips (1921)
"The starkness of the dawn is at my heart. MIRIAM. O, how I scorn myself — and ~ ~. ~.yet—[Putting her hand on his shoulder and looking in his face. ..."

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