English dictionary
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English noun: wildness | |||
| 1. | wildness (feeling) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | ||
| Samples | The wildness of his anger. | ||
| Synonyms | abandon | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | passion, passionateness | ||
| 2. | wildness (attribute) the property of being wild or turbulent | ||
| Samples | The storm's violence. | ||
| Synonyms | ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intensity, intensiveness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | savageness, savagery | ||
| 3. | wildness (attribute) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases | ||
| Samples | Liza had always had a tendency to wildness. The element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness | ||
| 4. | wildness (attribute) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intractability, intractableness | ||
| Attribute | untamed, wild | ||
| Antonyms | domestication, tameness | ||
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