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UK
/wˈaɪldnəs/
]
[ US /ˈwaɪɫdnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈwaɪɫdnəs/ ]
NOUN
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a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
the wildness of his anger - an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
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the property of being wild or turbulent
the storm's violence -
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
How To Use wildness In A Sentence
- The ambiguity inherent in that fantasy of unpinning suggests not only the male desire, but also the very real potential of a female "wildness" that desires release.
- Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
- Probably something about the wildness of the voices is attractive to them. "For Children"
- While he radiated innocence and virginity, Siterra radiated seductiveness, wildness, and deadliness.
- I want to know the free-spirited wildness of my unrepressed desires realising themselves in festive play.
- A V-shaped skein passing overhead with a cacophony of honks floating down still epitomizes wildness and freedom for many people.
- Savagery, etymologically derived from the Latin word for "forest", was associated with wildness and stood in opposition to civilization. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- While coming home from fishing one night, the narrator was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of rank, primitive animality, a feeling of wildness.
- This wildness, however, is different from that of the Highlands; for here the mountains, instead of heath, are covered with a fine green swarth, affording pasture to innumerable flocks of sheep. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- The beauty and wildness of the country is mirrored in the beauty and wildness of its people and politics.