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say it: STAHRK-nis
starkness is a noun meaning "the quality of being complete or utter or extreme". It is pronounced /ˈstɑɹknɪs/ — STAHRK-nis. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
“the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections”
an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation
“I was struck by the starkness of my father's room”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for starkness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.