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noun

  1. The quality of being uninhabited

    bareness, barrenness, bleakness, devastation, destruction, havoc, ruin, wreck, ravaging, demolition, annihilation, extinction, depopulation, emptiness; see also desert, waste 3.

    Antonyms fertility*, luxuriance, productivity.

  2. The quality of being hopeless

    wretchedness, misery, loneliness, forlornness; see gloom 2.

See desolation in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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