BARENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bareness mean? 

• BARENESS (noun)
  The noun BARENESS has 3 senses:

1. a bleak and desolate atmosphere

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

3. an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation

  Familiarity information: BARENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bleak and desolate atmosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bareness; bleakness; desolation; nakedness

Context example:

the nakedness of the landscape

Hypernyms ("bareness" is a kind of...):

gloom; gloominess; glumness (an atmosphere of depression and melancholy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("bareness" is a kind of...):

nakedness; nudeness; nudity (the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind)

Derivation:

bare (completely unclothed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bareness; starkness

Context example:

I was struck by the starkness of my father's room

Hypernyms ("bareness" is a kind of...):

plainness (the appearance of being plain and unpretentious)

Derivation:

bare (having everything extraneous removed including contents)

bare (providing no shelter or sustenance)

bare (lacking its natural or customary covering)

bare (lacking a surface finish such as paint)

bare (not having a protective covering)

 Context examples 

The Crusaders had brought back with them experiences of domestic luxuries, of Damascus carpets and rugs of Aleppo, which made them impatient of the hideous bareness and want of privacy which they found in their ancestral strongholds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)