wilderness

Noun

• a bewildering profusion
  • the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups
    
  • a wilderness of masts in the harbor
    

• a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
  • it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers
    

• a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

• (politics) a state of disfavor
  • he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  wild , Wilderness