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How to pronounce wildness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms abandon
Type of passionateness, passion
Derivation wild


the wildness of his anger.
Type Words
Synonyms ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence
Type of intensiveness, intensity
Has types savageness, savagery
Derivation wild
Type Words
Type of intractability, intractableness
Derivation wild
Type Words
Type of fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness
Derivation wild


Liza had always had a tendency to wildness.
the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention.

Examples of wildness

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The managed wildness of the landscape garden migrated into the back garden, too.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Autumn trees have the swirling, almost tactile wildness of a Van Gogh landscape.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The Shockers'selectivity had more to do with those walks than Knight's wildness.
From the kansas.com
With each group, his wildness gets him kicked out and in search of a new family.
From the kansas.com
Like the brushfires started by forest rangers, it is a wildness with a purpose.
From the freep.com
Washington's problems, on this night, extended beyond an error and some wildness.
From the washingtonpost.com
And he carries about him too just a hint of the distracted wildness of his grief.
From the nzherald.co.nz
When the wildness gets to be a bit much for your comfort level, call a timeout.
From the charlotteobserver.com
It is well placed between the wildness of Hampstead Heath and the Tube station.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • A feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
  • Ferocity: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
  • 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"
  • An intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
  • Wildness is literally the quality of being wild or untamed, but further to this, it has been defined as a quality produced in nature (Thoreau 1906), as that which emerges from a forest (Micoud 1993), and as a level of achievement in nature (Cookson 2004). ...
  • A quality of the landscape, usually due to natural character, remoteness, or lack of obvious human influence, experienced by people through such values as feeling close to nature and experiencing a sense of solitude.
  • A condition that exists when molten metal, during cooling, evolves so much gas that it becomes violently agitated, forcibly ejecting metal from the mold or other container.
  • A gamey flavor which is not usually considered favorable but is typical of Ethiopian coffees