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English Dictionary: wildness by the DICT Development Group
2 results for wildness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wildness
n
  1. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
    Synonym(s): wildness, abandon
  2. the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
    Synonym(s): ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
  3. 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"
  4. an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
    Antonym(s): domestication, tameness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wildness \Wild"ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or
      untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained;
      rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
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