noun
- A feeling of extreme emotional intensity.
- usage: "the wildness of his anger"
- synonyms: abandon
- The property of being wild or turbulent.
- usage: "the storm's violence"
- synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence
- An unruly disposition to do as one pleases.
- usage: "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention"
- An intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature. .
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