wildness

(noun)

noun

1. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

- the wildness of his anger

Similar word(s): abandon

Definition categories: feeling, passion, passionateness

2. the property of being wild or turbulent

Similar word(s): ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence

Definition categories: attribute, intensity, intensiveness

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

Definition categories: attribute, fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness

4. an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

Definition categories: attribute, intractability, intractableness