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wildness

DEFINITIONS OF: wildness

1

n an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

Antonyms:
domestication, tameness
the attribute of having been domesticated
Type of:
intractability, intractableness
the trait of being hard to influence or control

n a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

“the wildness of his anger”
Synonyms:
abandon
Type of:
passion, passionateness
a strong feeling or emotion

n the property of being wild or turbulent

Synonyms:
ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence
Types:
savageness, savagery
the property of being untamed and ferocious
Type of:
intensity, intensiveness
high level or degree; the property of being intense

n an unruly disposition to do as one pleases

“Liza had always had a tendency to wildness”
“the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention”
Type of:
fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness
the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
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