bleaknesses
States of barrenness
Bleaknesses is the plural of bleakness—instances or qualities of being bleak.
Bleakness suggests cold emptiness, cheerlessness, or lack of hope: the bleakness of a winter landscape, the bleakness of economic prospects.
Multiple bleaknesses might describe varied sources of despair: The bleaknesses of poverty, isolation, and illness compounded each other.
Abandons all expectation
- desolationsStates of bleak emptiness
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
sorrows · dejections · dismalness · cheerlessness · joylessness · dreariness · miseries · wretchedness
Things that dampen enthusiasm
- futurelessnessLacking any coming time
- despairsAbandons all expectation
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
- dimnessInsufficient illumination
darkness · joylessness · gloom · negativities · uncertainties · doubtfulness · dismays
Infertile, sparsely vegetated land
- wastelandsUncultivable, empty lands
- desolationsStates of bleak emptiness
- starknessSevere, unadorned quality
- emptinessAbsence of substance
windswept · treelessness · harshness · exposures · moorlands · tundras · steppes · aridities
despairs
Abandons all expectation
- desolationsStates of bleak emptiness
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
melancholy · sorrows · dejections · dismalness · cheerlessness · joylessness · dreariness · miseries · wretchedness · forlornness
discouragements
Things that dampen enthusiasm
- futurelessnessLacking any coming time
- despairsAbandons all expectation
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
dimness · darkness · joylessness · gloom · negativities · uncertainties · doubtfulness · dismays
barrens
Infertile, sparsely vegetated land
- wastelandsUncultivable, empty lands
- desolationsStates of bleak emptiness
- starknessSevere, unadorned quality
emptiness · windswept · treelessness · harshness · exposures · moorlands · tundras · steppes · aridities · openness
bleaknesseswarmths
Plural of thermal comfort
cheerfulness · warmth · coziness · cheeriness · brightness
bleaknesseshopefulness
Expectation of positive outcomes
optimism · promise · brightness · sanguinity · buoyancy