starkness

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stark

(stärk)

adj. stark·er, stark·est

1. Clearly distinguished or delineated: a stark contrast.

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.

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

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, utterness limit, 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" bareness plainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious

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starkness

[ˈstɑːknɪs] N

1. (= austerity) [of landscape, desert] → lo inhóspito; [of conditions] → severidad f; [of simplicity, contrast, décor, outline] → austeridad f; [of colour, beauty] → sobriedad f; [of description] → lo escueto, lo sucinto

2. (= harshness) [of reality, poverty] → crudeza f; [of choice, warning, reminder] → lo duro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

starkness

n (of clothing) → Schlichtheit f; (of colour) → Eintönigkeit f; (glaring) → Grellheit f; (of truth, contrast) → Härte f, → Krassheit f; (of landscape) → Nacktheit f, → Kahlheit f

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