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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Since that man is at no point real to us—no more than the character in a comic sketch—the film’s increasing wildness takes on the feeling of a wearying and empty freakout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Until, that is, the play’s rather retrograde climax, when the playwright’s provocateur wildness goes limp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
To some extent, there was a time when such carefree wildness reigned.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
Taste in gardens and landscapes tilted from love of picturesque nature inhabited by people and animals towards sublime Romantic wildness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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