BARENESS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

bareness

noun

Definition of bareness

as in emptiness

the quality or state of being empty the stark bareness of the refrigerator suggested it was time to go shopping

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as in nudity

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

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Recent Examples of bareness Di Felice makes very sexy clothes, but at times the bareness crosses the line between aspirationally hot and inconceivably bare. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 7 Mar. 2026 Clothes felt sensuous without overt sexuality and bareness. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2025

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Noun

There is an emptiness left behind that cannot be filled, and there are so many of us who will never be quite the same without you.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Occasional moments of real, spontaneous joy emerge, and others reveal the crushing emptiness of lives going nowhere, but the script doesn’t lean too hard in either direction.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of emptiness

Noun

Over the weekend, the group dropped a couple more clips that show one of the main characters, Lucia, nude.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
In 2013, Kardashian’s then-husband Kanye West gifted her a Hermès Birkin bag for Christmas that featured an impressionist painting of nudes by artist George Condo.

— Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of nude

Noun

But the fashionable-at-the-time nakedness of the YBAs’ desire for money, most completely embodied by Hirst, quickly became crass.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Chloe Webb’s performance as Nancy Spungen, the junkie girlfriend who Sid probably murdered (the role of Nancy was originally supposed to go to Courtney Love), is breathtaking in the nakedness of its emotion.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of nakedness

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