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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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
How, where and when they lost their wildness and developed close bonds with humans has long puzzled scientists.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
In environmental terms, Thoreau, who saw the landscape as imbued with an essential wildness that could be heedlessly destroyed, embodies physis.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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