bareness

It was May and the keen light raked her room, laying its bareness still more bare.

The resignation of this man, the terrible bareness of his obscure existence, oppressed me.

He respects truth to such a degree that he offers it to his readers in its disconcerting bareness.

Before the curtains of history lifted, one feels the world was like this—this Celtic bareness and sombreness and air.

She had never been in Winn's room before, and as she sat down to wait for him her eyes took in its neat impressive bareness.