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单词 wildness
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wildnessn.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪldnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈwaɪl(d)nᵻs/
Forms: see wild adj.
Etymology: < wild adj. + -ness suffix. Compare Middle High German wiltnisse, German wildnis.
The quality or condition of being wild, in various senses.
1.
a. Undomesticated state (of an animal); the untamed disposition characteristic of such state; fierceness, savageness, ferocity; also, shyness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal > fierceness
rethenesseOE
wildshipc1275
wildnessc1440
fury1597
ramageness1607
viciousness1774
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > undomesticated > state or condition
wildshipc1275
wildnessc1440
untamedness1592
the (also a) state of nature1798
untameness1871
ferality1885
the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > quality of shyness > (of an animal) wildness or shyness
wildness1596
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528 Wyldnesse, indomitas, ferocitas.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xi. 40 Mylyzyus..Dyd fyrst attame and breke the wyldenes Of the riall stedes.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G4 And let milde women to him loose their mildnesse, Wilder to him then Tygers in their wildnesse . View more context for this quotation
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 31 Lyke wylde hartes,..throuch a certane wyldnes of nature, flie the..syght of men.
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 185 Forresters and Hunters doe call this yearely mewing of their heads, the beauty of their wildnesse, and not the mewing of their Hornes.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 125 His necessities, and the privation of light, make him lose all idea of liberty, and bring down his natural wildness.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vii. 212 The greater wildness of all our large birds than of our small birds.
b. Uncultivated state (of a plant).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [noun] > wild > wild state
wildnessa1616
ferity1664
uncultivability1880
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 55 Our Vineyards, Fallowes, Meades, and Hedges, Defectiue in their natures, grow to wildnesse . View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 73 These [trees]..change their salvage Mind: Their Wildness lose. View more context for this quotation
1892 Kath. Tynan in Speaker 3 Sept. 290/1 The roses..will deteriorate year after year, returning gradually to wildness.
2. Uncultivated state (of a place or region); the character or aspect of such a place or its scenery. Also concrete a wild place, a wilderness (now rare or obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > quality of
wildnessc1374
wildernessc1449
wasteness1608
inculture1653
uncultivation1796
ferality1885
the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun]
westerneOE
weste landOE
wastinea1175
westec1175
wastec1200
wildernc1200
wildernessc1200
wildernessc1230
warlottc1290
forestc1320
wastyc1325
deserta1398
wastern?a1400
wildnessa1513
the wilds of1600
vastness1605
vastacy1607
roughet1616
wild1637
wildland1686
bush1780
wastage1823
mesquite1834
wasteland1887
mulga1896
virgin bush1905
boondock1944
boonies1954
virgin land1955
c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 34 Thyse tyrauntz put hem gladly nat in pres No places wyldnesse ne no busshes for to wynne.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxv. f. cviiiv Nat ferre from Warwyke in a wyldenesse [later edd. wyldernes(se].
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 3 The wildnesse of the earth and weeds..is killed by frosts and drought.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 276 The Heath..I wish..to be framed, as much as may be, to a Naturall wildnesse.
1709 M. Prior Henry & Emma 420 The Wildness of the Wood.
1801 W. Coxe Hist. Tour Monmouthshire I. 67 The scenery..is a pleasing intermixture of wildness and cultivation.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvii. 271 All the wildness of Salvator here, and there the fairy scenes of Claude.
1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. xi. 78 The gloomy fastnesses and wildnesses of nature.
3. Uncivilized or uncultured state or character (of persons); savagery, barbarity; †rudeness, roughness of manners (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman i. 62 The wildnesse of the one, prevailes more then the faire perswasion of the other.
1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 11 I'd rather..grow wrinckled and deform'd, As wildness and most rude neglect could make me.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 174 The wildness of the tribes by which it was inhabited.
1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem iv. 63 There is a native wildness in every man.
4. Unrestrained condition or quality; want of, resistance to, or freedom from restraint or control (with various shades of meaning).
a. Disposition to take one's own way; unruliness, insubordination; disorderly or riotous conduct; dissolute character, looseness of morals, licentiousness, wantonness; excessive liveliness or frolicsomeness.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun]
unrulinessc1400
wildnessc1400
ramagec1485
untamedness1592
unruliment1596
uncomeliness1607
unreclaimedness1611
infrenation1623
indocility1648
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun]
ribaldyc1300
riotc1330
ribaldry1389
riotingc1390
riotry?a1400
wildnessc1400
arrioutc1410
ramageness1440
ribaldise?c1450
unthriftinessc1450
ramagec1485
riotousness?1535
royet1542
dissoluteness1549
ruffianing1549
riotness1553
wildernessa1616
debauchery1642
profligateness1668
profligacy1693
rakishness1737
rakism1777
profligation1805
rouéism1828
c1400 Rom. Rose 4894 The tyme of yougth forto pace Withoute ony deth or distresse, It is so full of wyldenesse.
c1400 Rom. Rose 4939 Folkes forto lede Into disporte and wyldenesse.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528 Wyldnesse, or wantonhede, insolencia, dissolucio.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxciii. fff v/2 Somtyme ryot dothe good. We haue well aduaunsed forthe our payment with a lytell wyldnesse.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxiii Turnyng insolencie and wildnes into grauitie and sobernes.
1605 London Prodigall iii. iii Impute his wildnesse, syr, vnto his youth.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 189 He is giuen To sports, to wildenesse, and much company. View more context for this quotation
1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 28 The Roman people..had something of wildness in them; afterwards this Humour turned into Austerity, and became a rigid Vertue.
1710 R. Ward Life H. More 51 Ye are running into strange Wildnesses and Excesses.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. ii. 23 To be sure, Mr. Lovelace was a wild gentleman: But wildness was a distemper which would cure itself.
1804 M. Edgeworth Contrast i, in Pop. Tales III. 16 She hoped his wildness was only the effect of good spirits, and that he would soon settle to some business.
1827 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 23 July Genius may co-exist with wildness, idleness, folly, even with crime.
1879 D. J. Hill Life Irving 152 Moore, full of troubles from want of means and the wildness of his son.
b. Frenzy, distraction; distracted air or aspect; extreme folly or unreasonableness, irrational or fantastic character, extravagance; violence, vehemence, passionateness (of a feeling, etc.); excitedness, extreme eagerness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun]
woodnessc1000
furyc1374
ferteec1380
ragea1393
violencea1393
excess1423
zeala1425
vehemence1445
extremity1509
franticnessa1529
vehemency1534
wildnessc1540
impotency1542
violent1576
distraughture1594
distraught1610
distractiona1616
distractedness?1617
entrancement1637
distractfulnessa1640
impotencea1640
transportment1639
transportednessa1656
violent1667
whirl1707
rave1765
Sturm und Drang1857
storm and stress1879
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging
wood dreameOE
frenzyc1340
furor1477
rammistnessc1485
wildnessc1540
willnessc1540
frenzicness1547
frenziness1594
phrenition1642
amok1665
nympholepsy1776
nympholepsia1885
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9197 What wildnes, or worship, waknet my hert, For to hap her in hert?
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 42 I doe wish That your good beauties be the happy cause Of Hamlets wildnes . View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim v. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iiiii2/2 Though he be rash, and suddain (which is all his wildenes) Take heed ye wrong him not.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. §3 A Delirium is but a short Wildness of the Imagination.
1760 S. Fielding Ophelia II. xxxvi. 79 I enquired for Lord Dorchester, with an eager Wildness.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. v. 323 Joy unwonted, and surprise, Gave their strange wildness to his eyes.
1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xix Alarmed by his aspect and the wildness of his words.
1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif viii. 269 There is no fanaticism, no wildness in his statements.
5. In reference to style or aspect, with various implications: cf. sense 4 and wild adj. 14a, 14b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > of style or workmanship
rudenessc1425
wildness1762
the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun]
simpletyc1225
nativeness1568
naturalness1656
inaffectation1658
unaffectedness1752
unsophistication1825
unsophisticatedness1858
wildness1887
1762 Warton Observ. Spenser's F.Q. (ed. 2) I. v. 197 His [sc. Chaucer's] romantic arguments, his wildness of painting, his simplicity and antiquity of expression.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 59 The simplicity of their appearance, approaching to wildness, was tempered by a hospitable spirit.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxv. 184 There was a wildness in the sky like that of anger.
1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. ix. 204 Your wildness was your charm... You were a beautiful, ignorant creature, knowing nothing of the world.
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