Starkness [noun]

Definition of Starkness:

grimness, barrenness

Synonyms of Starkness:

● Simplicity

● Severity

● Bareness

● Economy

● Plainness

● Rusticism

● Spareness

● Baldness

● Primitiveness

● Dourness

● Spartanism

● Unadornment


Opposite/Antonyms of Starkness:

● Luxuriousness

● Spending

● Elaborateness

● Indulgence

● Extravagance

● Mildness

● Meekness

● Gentility

● Calmness

● Blandness


Sentence/Example of Starkness:

It is spring, and the woods in the distance are losing their starkness.

Along that hot road the spectre of Zurich pursued me, in all its starkness.

Since I left my father's house I have felt the starkness of strangers, and now—now I can endure it no longer.

That strange feeling of starkness never belonged to a human body soft with the pulse of life.

He was very gentle with man and beast, but he dreaded the starkness of disillusion cropping through again.