transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈwil-dər-nəs ]
noun
Etymology: Middle English, from wildern wild, from Old English wilddēoren of wild beasts
Date: 13th century
1.
a.
(1) : a tract or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings
(2) : an area essentially undisturbed by human activity together with its naturally developed life community
b. : an empty or pathless area or region
in remote wilderness es of space groups of nebulae are found — G. W. Gray †1960
c. : a part of a garden devoted to wild growth
2. obsolete : wild or uncultivated state
3.
a. : a confusing multitude or mass : an indefinitely great number or quantity
I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys — Shakespeare
b. : a bewildering situation
those moral wilderness es of civilized life — Norman Mailer