Waste"ness (?), n.
1.
The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness.
Zeph. i. 15.
2.
That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
[R.]
Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought.
Spenser.
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