wildness
- ferocity adj.
- abandon n.
- abandonment n.
- desolation n.
- disorderliness n.
- excitement n.
- extravagance n.
- ferociousness n.
- fierceness n.
- fractiousness n.
- heedlessness n.
- indocility n.
- intensity n.
- intractability n.
- intractableness n.
- libertinism n.
- license n.
- licentiousness n.
- obstinateness n.
- obstreperousness n.
- prodigality n.
- profligacy n.
- profligacy n.
- recalcitrance n.
- recalcitrancy n.
- refractoriness n.
- tempest n.
- tumult n.
- uncontrollability n.
- uncontrollableness n.
- ungovernableness n.
- unmanageability n.
- unrestraint n.
- unruliness n.
- untowardness n.
- vehemency n.
- violence n.
- wantonness n.
- wastefulness n.
Example Sentences
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Until, that is, the play’s rather retrograde climax, when the playwright’s provocateur wildness goes limp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Baseball’s rules were standardized by middle-class Manhattan professionals who “squeezed all the wildness of the folk game into their polished diamond,” giving it a sheen of gentility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
“Mabel 2 is much shier and has more wildness in her,” so she was used in the nervous bird scenes early on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
To some extent, there was a time when such carefree wildness reigned.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
Much is made of the inability of the wildness of nature to blend into and mix with what man has done to the world.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen