noun (n)

• (politics) a state of disfavor(noun.state)

  Example:
  He led the Democratic party back from the wilderness.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War(noun.object)

  source: wordnet30
• a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition(noun.location)

  Example:
  It was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers.
  

  Synonym:
  wild
  

  source: wordnet30
• a bewildering profusion(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  The duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups.
  A wilderness of masts in the harbor.
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913