WILDNESS

• (noun) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

• (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"

• (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent

  "the storm's violence"

  synonyms : ferocity , fierceness , furiousness , fury , vehemence , violence

• (noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

  "the wildness of his anger"

  synonyms : abandon

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