wildness

Plural: wildnesses

Noun

• The state or quality of being wild or untamed.
• a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
  • "the wildness of his anger"
• the property of being wild or turbulent
• 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"
• an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
• The state or quality of being wild.

Examples

• The wildness of his Scrabble plays often led to either huge scores or complete duds.

Synonyms

abandon, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence

Antonyms

tameness, ;, civility#Noun, domestication#Noun, tameness#Noun

Related Words

ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness