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wasteness

noun
/ˈweɪstnəs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English wastnesse; equivalent to waste + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian woestens (“wildness, savagery, fierceness”), Dutch woestenis (“wasteland”), German Wüstnis (“desert, wasteland”).

  1. inherited from wastnesse

Definitions

  1. The state of being laid waste

    The state of being laid waste; desolation.

    • That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  2. The state of being uncultivated

    The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.

    • Under her rays, the ground over which we passed assumed a more interesting appearance than during the broad day-light, which discovered the extent of its wasteness.

  3. A wilderness.

    • She of nought affrayd, / Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wasteness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA