English Explanatory Dictionary

wasteness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being laid waste; desolation.
  2. The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.
  3. A wilderness.

Pronunciation

/ˈweɪstnəs/

Word forms

wasteness wastenesses

Etymology

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

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