Wilderness1. (n.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
2. (n.) A disorderly or neglected place.
3. (v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
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