starkness

stark

S0710500 (stärk)adj. stark·er, stark·est 1. Clearly distinguished or delineated: a stark contrast.2. a. Bare, desolate, or unadorned: an apartment with stark white walls; the stark beauty of the desert landscape.b. Severe or unmitigated; harsh or grim: "[They] found it hard to accept such a stark portrait of unrelieved failure" (W. Bruce Lincoln).3. Complete or utter; extreme: stark disbelief.adv. Utterly; entirely: stark raving mad.

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[Middle English, stiff, severe, strong, from Old English stearc; see ster- in Indo-European roots.]

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stark′ly adv.stark′ness n.

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Noun	1.	starkness - the quality of being complete or utter or extreme; "the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections"absoluteness, utternesslimit, bound, boundary - the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
	2.	starkness - an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room"barenessplainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious

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