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wildness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wildness has 4 senses
- wildness(n = noun.feeling) abandon - a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" is a kind of passion, passionateness
- wildness(n = noun.attribute) ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" is a kind of intensity, intensiveness
- wildness(n = noun.attribute) Array - 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" is a kind of fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness
- wildness(n = noun.attribute) Array - an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature; Array is a kind of intractability, intractableness
Derived form adjective wild3
has particulars: savageness, savagery
Derived forms adjective wild13, adjective wild5
Derived form adjective wild1
Antonym: tameness
Derived form adjective wild12
CIDE DICTIONARY
wildness, n.
The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction. [1913 Webster]
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Space
N space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace, room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread, dimension, length, distance, size, volume, hypervolume, latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver, spare room, elbow room, house room, stowage, roomage, margin, opening, sphere, arena, open space, free space, void, waste, wildness, wilderness, moor, moorland, campagna, abyss, unlimited space, infinity, world, ubiquity, length and breadth of the land, proportions, acreage, acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles, square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing), ares, arpents, spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample, widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed, boundless, shoreless, trackless, pathless, extended, extensively, wherever, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, right and left, all over, all the world over, throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land, under the sun, in every quarter, in all quarters, in all lands, here there and everywhere, from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end, on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass, to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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