BLEAKNESS

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

bleak (offering little or no hope)

bleak (providing no shelter or sustenance)

bleak (unpleasantly cold and damp)

 Context examples 

Yet I did not heed the bleakness of the weather; I was better fitted by my conformation for the endurance of cold than heat.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A bleakness came into his eyes, and the lines of his mouth grew severe and harsh.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)