Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wasteness \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.