1. An intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
   "The wildness of the untamed forest both frightened and fascinated the explorers"
    
2. An unruly disposition to do as one pleases
   "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behaviour was a protest against repressive convention"
    
3. The property of being wild or turbulent
   "the storm's wildness";
   - ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, vehemency
    
4. A feeling of extreme emotional intensity
   "the wildness of his anger";
   - abandon

See also: untamed, wild

Type of: fractiousness, intensity, intensiveness, intractability, intractableness, passion, passionateness, unruliness, wilfulness [Brit, Cdn], willfulness [N. Amer]

Antonym: domestication

Encyclopedia: Wildness