Desolation.
Desolation
/dɛsəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
• A state of complete emptiness or destruction.
• Great unhappiness or loneliness.
Origin
- Late Middle English from late Latin desolatio(n-), from Latin desolare ‘to abandon’.
- Latin "desolare": desolatus ‘abandoned’, past participle of desolare, from de- ‘thoroughly’ + solus ‘alone’.
