Definition of "bareness" [bare•ness]

• The state of being bare. (noun)

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• "The landscape on a spring day has a bracing bareness, which is not without exhilaration."
• "To the right and left the barren mountains reared their enormous baldness to the sun, deserts raised up broadside, as it were, and set on end, that their bareness might be the better seen and known to the world around."
• "All the economic development of life itself takes on at its end the appearance of an attempt to get rid of the animal squalor and bareness which is what obligatory poverty really means, and to give to man the divine ease and leisure of the gods."