0 the quality of being empty, simple, or clear, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary:
Despite the starkness of the furnishings, the room is quite comfortable.
The alternatives are set before us with unusual starkness.
The shop has a simple starkness about it, with grey concrete floor, white walls, and geometric partitions.
His production has a visual starkness that suits the grim subject matter.
Throughout the book the author captures the starkness of life on the high plains of North Dakota.
This lends the music a certain starkness.
Those considerations are likely to appear with increasing starkness in the coming weeks.
That system, because of its starkness and simplicity, becomes unfair.
The starkness of the position can be demonstrated by individual cases.
Yet the starkness of that language is a sign of the situation into which we have now moved.
