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say it: WAHYLD-nuhs
wildness is a noun meaning "a feeling of extreme emotional intensity". It is pronounced /ˈwaɪldnəs/ — WAHYLD-nuhs. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the property of being wild or turbulent
“the storm's violence”
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”
an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wildness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.