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wildness
 
NOUN:1. A complete surrender of inhibitions: abandon, abandonment, incontinence, unrestraint, wantonness. See RESTRAINT. 2. The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness. See CONTROL, ORDER, PEACE, RESIST. 3. An uninhabited region left in its natural state: bush, wild, wilderness. See WILD.
 
 
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