Wasteness

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈweɪstnÉ™s/

Origin

From waste + -ness.

Full definition of wasteness

Noun

1. (obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation.
2. (now rare) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.
3. (obsolete) A wilderness.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:She of nought affrayd,
  Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought