bareness

bare ¹  (bâr)

adj. bar·er, bar·est

1. Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked: a bare arm.

2. Exposed to view; undisguised: bare fangs.

3. Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration: bare walls.

4. Having no addition, adornment, or qualification: the bare facts. See Synonyms at empty.

5. Just sufficient; mere: the bare necessities.

6. Obsolete Bareheaded.

tr.v. bared, bar·ing, bares

1. To make bare; uncover or reveal: bared their heads; baring secrets.

2. To expose: The dog bared its teeth.

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[Middle English bar, from Old English bær; see bhoso- in Indo-European roots.]

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bareness n.

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bare ²  (bâr)

v. Archaic

A past tense of bear¹.

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Bareness 

1. Bare as the back of my hand —John Ray’s Proverbs
2. As naked as the last leftover clap in a theatre —Joe Coomer
3. Bare as a birch at Christmas —Sir Walter Scott

   Scott used this in both The Fortunes of Nigel and Quentin Durward.

4. Bare as a bird’s tail —Edward Ward
5. Bare as a newly shorn sheep —John Lydgate

   The simile has been modernized from “Bare as a sheep that is but newe shorn.”

6. (There she was, on the bed beside me, as) bare-assed as Eve in Eden —George Garrett
7. Bare as shame —Algernon Charles Swinburne
8. Bare as winter trees —William Wordsworth
9. Bare like a carcass picked by crows —Jonathan Swift
10. More desolate than the wilderness —The Holy Bible/Ezekiel
11. Naked as an egg —F. van Wyck Mason
12. Naked as a peach pit —Helen Dudar, Wall Street Journal, November 26, 1986

    Even writers not given to using similes often use them as attention-grabbers at the beginning of an article, as Helen Dudar did to introduce her subject, novelist Paget Powell.

13. Naked as a stone —Angela Carter
14. Naked as a table cloth —Frank O’Hara
15. Naked as a weather report —Robert Traver
16. Naked as rain —Wallace Stevens
17. Nude as fruit on limb —George Garrett
18. (Voice wearing) raw as a rubbed heel —Sharon Sheehe Stark
19. (I’m simply against) showing girls as if they were pork chops —Germaine Greer on Playmate features in Playboy Magazine, January, 1972
20. Standing naked as a dead man’s shadow —A. D. Winans

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bareness - a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape" bleakness, desolation, nakedness gloominess, glumness, gloom - an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"
	2.	bareness - the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) nakedness, nudeness, nudity - the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
	3.	bareness - an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room" starkness plainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious

Translations

bareness [ˈbɛənɪs] N

1. (= nakedness) → desnudez f

2. (= emptiness) [of room] → lo vacío; [of wall, tree] → desnudez f; [of landscape] → desnudez f, lo pelado

bareness

n → Nacktheit f; (of person also) → Blöße f; (of trees, countryside) → Kahlheit f; (of room, garden) → Leere f; (of style) → Nüchternheit f

bareness [ˈbɛənɪs] n → nudità