Starkness [noun]
Definition of Starkness:
grimness, barrenness
Sentence/Example of Starkness:
It is spring, and the woods in the distance are losing their starkness.
Along that hot road the spectre of Zurich pursued me, in all its starkness.
Since I left my father's house I have felt the starkness of strangers, and now—now I can endure it no longer.
That strange feeling of starkness never belonged to a human body soft with the pulse of life.
He was very gentle with man and beast, but he dreaded the starkness of disillusion cropping through again.