starkness
noun/ˈstɑːknəs/
/ˈstɑːrknəs/
[uncountable]- a severe appearance without colour or decoration
- the starkness of modernist architecture
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- the fact of being unpleasant, real and impossible to avoid
- the starkness of loss and grief
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