Associations to the word «Wildness»

Wiktionary

WILDNESS, noun. The quality of being wild or untamed

Dictionary definition

WILDNESS, noun. A feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger".
WILDNESS, noun. The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence".
WILDNESS, noun. 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".
WILDNESS, noun. An intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats