1. A feeling of extreme emotional intensity
   "the wildness of his anger"
   - abandon 
2. The property of being wild or turbulent
   - ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, vehemency 
3. An unruly disposition to do as one pleases
   "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behaviour was a protest against repressive convention" 
4. An intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

Derived forms: wildnesses

See also: untamed, wild

Type of: fractiousness, intensity, intensiveness, intractability, intractableness, passion, passionateness, unruliness, wilfulness [Brit, Cdn], willfulness [N. Amer]

Antonym: tameness

Encyclopedia: Wildness

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