wildness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

barbary fury pandemonium bedlam violence panic turmoil rage abandonment madness cruelty insanity brutality dissipation extravagance
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Antonyms

temperance control good enlightenment prudence care
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Hypernyms

intensity passion intractability passionateness intensiveness

Hyponyms

savagery savageness

Anagrams

windless

Examples

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. H. G. Wells

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. Gerard Manley Hopkins

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. John Muir

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. Henry David Thoreau

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. Henry David Thoreau

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. Sarah Dessen

Close letter words and terms

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