noun
- plural of starkness; the quality or state of being stark, bare, or harsh
Usage: formal
Examples
- The starknesses of the winter landscape were both beautiful and forbidding.
- Different starknesses characterized each room of the abandoned building.
- The artist captured various starknesses in her black and white photographs.
- The starknesses of their living conditions shocked the visitors.
- Multiple starknesses defined the harsh realities of frontier life.