Wasteness

Quick meaning: Wasteness is a noun meaning (now rare) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.

Meaning

(now rare) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation.
2. (obsolete) A wilderness.

Example Sentences

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

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,

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.

[…] I cannot find words to express the intense pleasure I have always in first finding myself, after some prolonged stay in England, at the foot of the old tower of Calais church. The large neglect, the noble unsightliness of it; the record of its years written so visibly, yet without sign of weakness or decay; its stern wasteness and gloom, eaten away by the Channel winds, and overgrown with the bitter sea grasses […]

Word Forms

• wastenesses

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