wildness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
    abandon.
    • the wildness of his anger
  2. noun the property of being wild or turbulent
    fury; violence; furiousness; fierceness; vehemence; ferocity.
    • the storm's violence
  3. noun 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. noun an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

WordNet

Wild"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.

Webster 1913