Antonyms for wildnesswild·ness

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1. • Intensity
   • Intractability
   • Unruliness

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1. wildness, abandonnoun

   a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

   "the wildness of his anger"

   Antonyms:
   tameness, domestication

   Synonyms:
   fury, unconstraint, abandon, wantonness, violence, vehemence, furiousness, ferocity, fierceness

2. ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildnessnoun

   the property of being wild or turbulent

   "the storm's violence"

   Antonyms:
   tameness, domestication

   Synonyms:
   fury, rage, delirium, emphasis, craze, frenzy, abandon, madness, force, violence, vehemence, furiousness, ferocity, hysteria, fierceness

3. wildnessnoun

   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"

   Antonyms:
   tameness, domestication

   Synonyms:
   fury, vehemence, fierceness, violence, ferocity, furiousness, abandon

4. wildnessnoun

   an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

   Antonyms:
   domestication, tameness

   Synonyms:
   fury, vehemence, fierceness, violence, ferocity, furiousness, abandon

How to use wildness in a sentence?

1. David Assael:

   Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive.

2. Cindy Shogan:

   The most compelling arguments are the ones we forget about using -- and that is the beauty and the special nature and the wildness of the place, it's not everybody's cup of tea, but the fact of the matter is it is unique. It truly is the last great wilderness. A lot of people like the idea that there's a place like that that's still left, and they want it to be left for future generations.

3. Charles Lindbergh:

   Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

4. Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862):

   In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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