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Definitions: Bareness |
BarenessNoun1. The state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body). 2. An extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bareness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Synonym: BarenessSynonym: starkness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Divestment | Nudity; bareness; Adjective: undress; dishabille; the altogether; nudation, denudation; decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation; molting; exfoliation; trichosis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Bareness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bareness" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bareness | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bareness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thjeshtësi (chastity, commonness, informality, modesty, naivety, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, unpretentiousness), thatësi (drought, dryness), lakuriqësi (nakedness, nudity). (various references) | |
Arabic | حاجة (deficiency, necessity, need, poverty, requirement, want), عري (nakedness, nude, nudity, pubic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | голота (bleakness, nudity), откритост (openness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 光秃 (Baldness, Bare). (various references) | |
Czech | nahota (nakedness, nudity). (various references) | |
Finnish | alastomuus (nakedness, nudity), alasti (nakedness, nudity). (various references) | |
French | sécheresse (barrenness), pauvreté, nudité (baldness), dépouillement, dépouillé (bare), dénuement. (various references) | |
German | nacktheit (nakedness, nudeness, nudity, sheerness, starkness), blöße (clearing, ignorance, nakedness, nudity, opening). (various references) | |
Greek | γυμνότητα (baldness, nudeness, nudity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מערומים (nakedness, nudity), ערי" (nakedness, nudity), ערטול (laying bare, nudity), חשוף (bare, exposed, exposure, laying bare, naked, opening, stripped, uncovered). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meztelenség (nakedness, nude, nudity). (various references) | |
Italian | nudit (baldness, nakedness, nudeness, nudity). (various references) | |
Manx | rooishtid (nakedness, nudism, nudity), meayllid (baldness, flatness), lhomid (neatness), folmid (blank, blankness, emptiness, flatness, hollowness, inanity, shallowness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, void useless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arenessbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pobreza (destitution, indigene, narrow goods, penurity, penury, poorness, poverty, sorriness), nudez (baldness, namby-pamby, nude, nudity). (various references) | |
Romanian | goliciune (barrenness, emptiness, nakedness, nudity). (various references) | |
Russian | неприкрытость. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nagost (nakedness, nude, nudity, undress), golotinja (nakedness, nude). (various references) | |
Spanish | lo escueto, desnudez (nakedness, nudeness, nudity). (various references) | |
Swedish | torftighet (austerity), tomhet (blankness, emptiness, emptyness, inanition, inanity, vacuity, vanity, void), nakenhet (nakedness, nudity). (various references) | |
Turkish | yoksulluk (calamity, destitution, hardship, misery, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation), çıplaklık (baldness, bleakness, nakedness, nude, nudity). (various references) | |
Ukranian | убогість (baldness, leanness, poverty, scantiness), неприкритість, нагота (nakedness, nude, nudity, undress), бідність (humility, meanness, misery, necessity, need, penury, poorness, poverty, shabbiness, tenuity, underprivilege). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng nghèo xác nghèo xơ, sự trần tru"ng (nakedness), sự trần trụi, sự trơ trụi sự thiếu thốn. (various references) | |
Welsh | noethder (nakedness), moelni (baldness), llymder (asperity, keenness, poverty, severity, sharpness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calvitio, calvitium, nuditas, nuditate, nuditatem, nuditatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bareness": barenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bareness": threadbareness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bareness": threadbarenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Bareness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abrines, Bareges, barene, barreness, berenices, biranese, boreens, Borenius, borneensis, Borness, Bremness, buryenges, careness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bareness" (pronounced 'Bare"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness, Chasteness, Cheapness, Childness, Chillness, Choiceness, Chopness, Circumspectness, Cleanness, Clearness, Closeness, Coarseness, Coldness, Compactness, Completeness, Conciseness, Concreteness, Condignness, Conjointness, Coolness, Correctness, Corruptness, Coyness, Crankness, Crassness, Crispness, Crossness, Crudeness, Curstness, Curtness, Cuteness, Daftness, Dampness, Darkness, Deadness, Deafness, Dearness, Debauchness, Debonairness, Deepness, Deftness, Demureness, Devoutness, Diffuseness, Diluteness, Dimness, Directness, Direness, Dirkness, Diskindness, Dislikeness, Disperseness, Distinctness, Diverseness, Divineness, Dryness, Dueness, Dulceness, Dullness, Dumbness, Duskness, Erectness, Exactness, Expertness, Expressness, Faintness, Fairness, Falness, Falseness, Farness, Fastness, Fatness, Featness, Fellness, Ferdness, fewness, fineness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fleetness, Flushness, fondness, forgiveness, forlornness, Forswornness, foulness, frailness, frankness, Freeness, freshness, fullness, gameness, Gastness, gayness, genteelness, Ghastness, Gladness, Glibness, Glumness, Goneness, Goodness, grandness, graveness, grayness, greatness, greenness, grimness, grossness, grotesqueness, Halfness, hardness, harshness, Highness, hirsuteness, hoarseness, hotness, illness, immatureness, immenseness, impureness, incompleteness, incorrectness, incorruptness, indirectness, indistinctness, ineptness, inertness, inexactness, Inexpertness, Infirmness, insaneness, insecureness, Intenseness, intentness, justness, keenness, KINDNESS, lameness, Lankness, largeness, lateness, laxness, leanness, likeness, limpness, litheness, Loathness, Loneness, longness, looseness, loudness, loving-kindness, lowness, madness, matureness, meanness, meekness, Meetness, mildness, minuteness, moistness, Moreness, moroseness, Muchness, Muteness, Nearness, neatness, Newness, Niceness, Nighness, Northness, Numbness, Obeseness, Oblateness, Obliqueness, Obscureness, Obtuseness, Occultness, Oddness, Oldness, Oneness, Opaqueness, Ornateness, Oughtness, Outness, Overfullness, Overgreatness, Overlargeness, Overmuchness, Overthwartness, Paleness, Patness, Pertness, Perverseness, Piedness, Pinkness, Plainness, Platness, Plumpness, Politeness, Poorness, Primeness, Primness, Profaneness, Profoundness, Profuseness, Prolixness, Promptness, Proneness, Proudness, Pureness, Quaintness, Quakness, Queerness, Quickness, rankness, rareness, rashness, Rawness, Recluseness, redness, remissness, Repleteness, richness, rightness, ripeness, robustness, Rotundness, roughness, roundness, sadness, safeness, Sageness, Salineness, Saltness, sameness, saneness, scantness, Scrimpness, secureness, Seedness, Selectness, Selfness, Self-willedness, Sereneness, Setness, sharpness, shortness, shrillness, shyness, sickness, Silkness, Sincereness, slackness, sleekness, slickness, slightness, slimness, Sliness, Slopeness, slowness, slyness, smallness, smartness, smoothness, smugness, snugness, softness, Soleness, Soothness, soreness, soundness, sourness, Southness, spareness, sparseness, squareness, staidness, staleness, Stanchness, Starchness, starkness, Stayedness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, Straitness, strangeness, strictness, Stuntness, Sublimeness, Submissness, sureness, Swartness, sweetness, swiftness, tallness, tameness, tartness, thickness, thinness, Thwartness, tightness, tiredness, toughness, Trigness, trimness, trueness, Truthness, Underniceness, Undueness, Unfirmness, unharness, unlikeness, Unripeness, Unsadness, Unwellness, vagueness, Vainness, Vastness, Voidness, Wanness, Warmness, Wasteness, Weakness, Weirdness, Westness, Whereness, Whiteness, Wholeness, Wideness, Wildness, Wiseness, Woodness, Wrawness, Wrongness, Wryness, Youngness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-n-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: erases, ranees, sabers, sabres, sarees, sarsen, snares, sneers. | |
-3 letters: arses, banes, bares, barns, baser, bases, beans, bears, beers, benes, braes, brans, brass, brees, brens, earns, eases, erase, ernes, erses, nabes, nares, nears, ranee, rases, saber, sabes, sabre, saner, sanes, saree, sears, seers, sensa, sense, seres, snare, sneer. | |
-4 letters: anes, arbs, ares, arse, bane, bans, bare, barn, bars, base, bass, bean, bear, been, beer, bees, bene, bens, brae, bran, bras, bree, bren, earn, ears, ease, eras, erne, erns, eses, nabe, nabs, near, nebs, ness, rase, rebs, rees, sabe, sabs, sane, sans, sear, seas, seen, seer, sees, sene, sera, sere, sers. | |
-5 letters: abs, ane, arb, are, ars, ass, ban, bar, bas, bee, ben, bra, ear, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, ess, nab, nae, neb, nee, ran, ras, reb, ree, res, sab, sae, sea, see, sen, ser. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: absenters. | |
+2 letters: barenesses, baronesses, barrenness, baseliners, bleariness, brazenness, drabnesses, horsebeans, newsbreaks, screwbeans. | |
+3 letters: beardedness, bearishness, bizarreness, brashnesses, breastbones, breathiness, broadnesses, crabbedness, curableness, durableness, lebensraums, liberalness, observances, rabidnesses. | |
+4 letters: abortiveness, abrasiveness, abruptnesses, absorbencies, abstruseness, absurdnesses, adorableness, anaerobioses, barrennesses, beggarliness, benefactress, blearinesses, braininesses, brainteasers, brassinesses, brattinesses, brawninesses, brazennesses, debonairness, enterobiases, enterobiasis, inseparables, nonreusables, obdurateness, provableness, readableness, reassembling, reliableness, resemblances, sauerbratens, undesirables, variableness, workableness. | |
+5 letters: admirableness, agreeableness, arborescences, barefacedness, beardednesses, bearishnesses, bizarrenesses, brainlessness, breathinesses, considerables, crabbednesses, curablenesses, desirableness, durablenesses, elaborateness, embarrassment, execrableness, favorableness, greenbackisms, honorableness, illiberalness, inobservances, irascibleness, irritableness, liberalnesses, memorableness, miserableness, removableness, ribonucleases, salmonberries, separableness, subterraneous, superableness, supercabinets, tractableness, unembarrassed, venerableness, veritableness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 72 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-. . -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a r e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0072 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667847180718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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