barrenness

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Recent Examples of barrenness Self-awareness and community are marvelous antidotes to the barrenness of conformity. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrenness
Noun
  • The campaign has already exceeded its goal by more than $38,000 dollars, with six days to go, proving no amount of dystopian bleakness will deter true Black Mirror fans.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • While The Road confronts us with the bleakness of planetary destruction, the sensory deprivation chamber in which Harpman holds her characters (and, therefore, readers) leaves no choice but to travel deep into our bodies.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Eckhardt’s commentaries on God and scripture are dense and recursive, breaking ideas into component parts, placing them onto higher and lower planes, making hierarchies and triads out of them until eventually becoming something like an investigation into being and nothingness themselves.
    Jon Raymond August 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • At nearly 60, a life of nothingness without love—what is the point?
    Greg Norman , David Spunt, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2025

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“Barrenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrenness. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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