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
To some extent, there was a time when such carefree wildness reigned.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
Lean and athletic, with a wildness in his eyes, Ray displays the same antagonism as Day-Lewis’ Bill the Butcher from “Gangs of New York” or Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
Beyond the ring of their firelight, there was nothing except animal sounds and insects, the black wildness of the jungles and swamps, the swelter of the interior.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
