\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.