1. (

• wildness ,
• abandon

) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" ;

2. (

• ferocity ,
• fierceness ,
• furiousness ,
• fury ,
• vehemence ,
• violence ,
• wildness ,

) the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" ;

3. (

• wildness ,

) 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" ;

4. (

• wildness

) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature ;