Wilderness

n.	1.
	1.	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. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. - Waller.
	2.	A disorderly or neglected place.
	3.	Quality or state of being wild; wildness. These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands. Will keep from wilderness with ease. - Milton.

Noun

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wilderness - a wild and uninhabited area Synonyms: wild

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