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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.