Word.ws English Dictionary

wilderment

wilderment noun: bewilderment.

Noun

wilderment (usually uncountable, plural wilderments)

  1. (archaic, usually) bewilderment.
    • And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death.1817, Thomas Moore, “The Fire-Worshippers”, in Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […]
    • Too glad for smiling, having bent
      In angelic wilderment
      O'er the depths of Goda. 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Isobel's Child

Forms of wilderment

pluralwilderments

Origin of wilderment

From wilder + -ment.

Questions about wilderment

What does wilderment mean?
Wilderment means bewilderment.
What part of speech is wilderment?
Wilderment is a noun.
What is the plural of wilderment?
The plural of wilderment is wilderments.

Words near wilderment in the dictionary

  1. wildered
  2. wildering
  3. wilderings
  4. Wilderman
  5. Wildermans
  6. wilderment
  7. wilderments
  8. Wildermuth
  9. Wildermuth ear
  10. Wildermuth ears
  11. Wildermuth's ear

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wilderment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wilderment.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wilderment. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.