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}]
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]