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Synonyms:
- acerbity, sharpness, abruptness, stoicism, crispness, acuteness, casualness, harshness, discipline, honesty, outspokenness, coolness, correctness, austerity, straightforwardness, oppressiveness, simplicity, celibacy, chilliness, nakedness, abstinence, desolation, folksiness, causticity, stringency, loneliness, clarity, asceticism, strictness, gruffness, directness, clearness, bareness, leanness, informality, barrenness, authoritarianism, bluntness, astringency, emptiness, grimness, frostiness, preciseness, abstemiousness, utterness, candidness, dryness, baldness, frankness, intensity, bleakness, repentance, abandonment, sternness, meticulousness, absoluteness, inhospitability, miserliness, matter-of-factness, brusqueness, keenness, teetotalism, desert, unpretentiousness, severity, ordinariness, parsimony, intelligibility, briskness, rigorousness
Examples:
- - It showed with such starkness how hideously the Brandeis ledger sagged on the wrong side. - "Fanny Herself", Edna Ferber
- - Long as he had sensed a certain spiritual starkness in his first novel, long as he had looked forward to his second, the vital questions concerning his new " line" had never yet been settled in his mind.... - "Angela's Business", Henry Sydnor Harrison
- - He roused himself a little and looked around him- and, with a shock, the starkness of the room, the abject, pitiful air of destitution brought home to him with terrific, startling force the significance of the scene in which he was playing a part. - "The Adventures of Jimmie Dale", Frank L. Packard
