wantonness

Other forms of wantonness

plural

wantonnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wantonness

What does wantonness mean?

wantonness means "the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wantonness?

wantonness has 3 syllables: wan-ton-ness. The stress falls on "wan".

What is another word for wantonness?

Close synonyms include abandon, unconstraint, licentiousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wantonness a common word?

wantonness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.