Antonyms of noun wildness

1 of 4 senses of wildness

Sense 4
wildness -- (an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature)
       Antonym of tameness (Sense 2)
      => tameness, domestication -- (the attribute of having been domesticated)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wildness

4 senses of wildness

Sense 1
wildness, abandon -- (a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger")
       => passion, passionateness -- (a strong feeling or emotion)

Sense 2
ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness -- (the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence")
       => intensity, intensiveness -- (high level or degree; the property of being intense)

Sense 3
wildness -- (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")
       => unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness -- (the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline)

Sense 4
wildness -- (an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature)
       => intractability, intractableness -- (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

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