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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "bareness" in a sentence

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    bareness


    1. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too


    2. They were still giggling together, the soup-bowl empty, when his father came home and frowned at the bareness of the table


    3. When the monsoon fails, it is then that the parched land of my village, Kashipur, clamours for rain to quench its thirst, to keep the bareness at bay and produce some wheat so that I am able to feed my family


    4. lush, green color that contrasted sharply with the stark bareness of the


    5. The king and queen had no choice but to escape and to be captured at bareness and guillotined (Louis Jan 21st 1793, Marie Oct 3rd 1793), ending a monarchy endured for one thousand years


    6. Never seen his entire body, beyond his manhood and the hair-speckled bareness on his chest


    7. Black gowns and bareness may be enough for those whose piety is so exalted that ceremonies are only a hindrance to the purity of their devotions; but the ignorant and the dull, if they are to be stirred, and especially the women who have entered upon that long series of gray years that begins, for those worked gaunt and shapeless in the fields, somewhere about twenty-five and never leaves off again, if they are to be helped to be less forlorn need many ceremonies, many symbols, much show, and mystery, and awfulness


    8. For not only did its bareness afflict her, and its glaring light, and its long empty table, and the way Chesterton's footsteps echoed up and down the uncarpeted floor, but there on the wall was that poor thing looking at her, she had no doubt whatever as to who it was standing up in that long slim frock looking at her, and she was taken aback


    9. It hasn't simply melted away, but disappeared without trace, taking with it the bareness of trees and the winter cold


    10. The bareness of the walls was relieved only by a

    11. The outdoor air had apparently taken away from him all tendency to act on impulse; she knew that he saw her without irradiation—in all her bareness; that Time was chanting his satiric psalm at her then—


    12. It must be admitted that the attic was rather delighted in, and that its coldness and bareness quite sank into insignificance when Melchisedec was remembered, and one heard about the sparrows and things one could see if one climbed on the table and stuck one's head and shoulders out of the skylight


    13. I speak often of this spot, it was the only one where we saw God's own world, a pure and bright horizon, the free desert steppes, whose bareness always produced a strange impression on me


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    Synonyms for "bareness"

    bareness starkness bleakness desolation nakedness

    "bareness" definitions

    a bleak and desolate atmosphere


    the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)


    an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation