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starkness
Variant of stark
adjective
- stiff or rigid, as a corpse
- rigorous; harsh; severe: stark discipline
- sharply outlined or prominent: one stark tree
- bleak; desolate; barren: stark wasteland
- emptied; stripped: stark shelves
- totally naked; bare
- grimly blunt; unsoftened, unembellished, etc.: stark realism
- sheer; utter; downright; unrelieved: stark terror
- Archaic strong; powerful
adverb
in a stark manner; esp., utterly; wholly: stark mad
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