austerity

Feeling word · 7 styles

Pale, with moisture and density removed. Lighter color, weaker contrast, thinner taste. Not strong. Of dried flowers, tea, ink.

Opposites

• richness

Styles

• Zen Painting
• Vanitas
• Mono no Aware
• Yugen
• Ink-Wash Landscape
• Literati Bleak Ink
• Tea House Idle

Co-occurs with

• impermanence
• withering
• sentimentality
• bleakness
• vanishing
• understated
• atmospheric haze
• sparseness
• sadness
• slenderness
• ascetic
• pensiveness

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