noun
1. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity (Freq. 1)
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the wildness of his anger
• Syn: ↑abandon
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wild
• Hypernyms: ↑passion, ↑passionateness
2. the property of being wild or turbulent (Freq. 1)
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the storm's violence
• Syn: ↑ferocity, ↑fierceness, ↑furiousness, ↑fury, ↑vehemence, ↑violence
• Derivationally related forms:
↑wild, ↑violent (for: ↑violence), ↑vehement (for: ↑vehemence), ↑furious (for: ↑fury), ↑furious (for: ↑furiousness), ↑fierce (for: ↑fierceness), ↑ferocious (for: ↑ferocity)
• Hypernyms: ↑intensity, ↑intensiveness
• Hyponyms: ↑savageness, ↑savagery
3. an unruly disposition to do as one pleases
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Liza had always had a tendency to wildness
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the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wild
• Hypernyms: ↑unruliness, ↑fractiousness, ↑willfulness, ↑wilfulness
4. an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
• Ant: ↑tameness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wild
• Hypernyms: ↑intractability, ↑intractableness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.