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Wildness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Wildness has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

"the wildness of his anger"

2

the property of being wild or turbulent

"the storm's violence"

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

5

the quality of being wild or untamed

Example Sentences
"the wildness of his anger" noun
"the storm's violence" noun
"Liza had always had a tendency to wildness" noun
"the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention" noun
Related Terms
Antonyms
domestication
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
passion intensity unruliness intractability
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
savageness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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