BLEAKNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does bleakness mean? • BLEAKNESS (noun)
The noun BLEAKNESS has 1 sense:
1. a bleak and desolate atmosphere
Familiarity information: BLEAKNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLEAKNESS (noun)
Meaning:
A bleak and desolate atmosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
bareness; bleakness; desolation; nakedness
Context example:
the nakedness of the landscape
Hypernyms ("bleakness" is a kind of...):
gloom; gloominess; glumness (an atmosphere of depression and melancholy)
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