starkness UK /ˈstɑːknəs/US /ˈstɑɹknəs/ noun2 •The state or quality of being stark.In the morning the framed photograph of the two of them, hanging on the sitting-room wall, was gone. The patch of wall where it had been hanging a hurtful rectangle of dusty starkness. — 2009 •The result or product of being stark. formsstarknesses