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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