wildness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
wildness
    n 1: a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of
         his anger" [syn: {wildness}, {abandon}]
    2: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
       violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness},
       {fury}, {vehemence}, {violence}, {wildness}]
    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"
    4: an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
       [ant: {domestication}, {tameness}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wildness \Wild"ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or
   untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained;
   rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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