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bareness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of bareness

1 the quality or state of being empty

  • the stark bareness of the refrigerator suggested it was time to go shopping
Synonyms of bareness

emptiness, vacancy, vacantness, vacuity
Words Related to bareness

hollowness

blankness, vacuum, void

nothingness

barrenness, bleakness, desolateness

availability, clearness, openness

depletion, dryness, exhaustion
Near Antonyms of bareness

completeness

abundance, fatness, repleteness
Antonyms of bareness

fullness (also fulness)

2 the state of having no clothes on one's body

  • as she encountered more and more nude people at the resort, she became less conscious of her own bareness
Synonyms of bareness

altogether, birthday suit, bottomlessness, buff, nakedness, nude, nudity, raw
Words Related to bareness

toplessness

naturism, nudism

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