4
starkness(noun, severity, desolation, harshness, emptiness)
3
nakedness
3
aridity(noun, emptiness, barrenness, desolateness)
3
austerity(noun, severity, harshness, drabness)
3
chill
3
chilliness(noun, severity, coldness)
3
discouragement(noun, trouble, worry, distress, sorrow)
3
disheartenment(noun, despair, hopelessness, despondency, desperation)
3
dispiritedness(noun, trouble, worry, distress, sorrow)
3
distress(noun, trouble, worry, sorrow, depression)
3
forlornness(noun, sorrow, depression, melancholy, woe)
3
frostiness(noun, severity, coldness)
3
grimness(noun, misery, severity, harshness, gloominess)
3
keenness(noun, severity)
3
loneliness(noun, desolation, harshness, isolation, devastation)
3
melancholy(noun, trouble, worry, distress, sorrow)
3
misery(noun, trouble, worry, distress, sorrow)
2
abandonment(noun, desolation, hopelessness)
2
anguish(noun, distress, sorrow, depression, melancholy)
2
blahs(noun, trouble, worry, distress, sorrow)
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