Wantonness Synonyms

A complete surrender of inhibitions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abandon
  2. abandonment
  3. incontinence
  4. unrestraint
  5. wildness
  6. unconstraint
The quality of being lewd and lascivious
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. licentiousness
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Words Related to Wantonness

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Wantonness Sentence Examples

  • Aphrodite Urania was represented in Greek art on a swan, a tortoise or a globe; Aphrodite Pandemos as riding on a goat, symbolical of wantonness.

  • Destruction was more the product of necessity than of wantonness.

  • The missionaries were charged with the task of undermining the authority of the Omayyads, by drawing attention to all the injustices that took place under their reign, and to all the luxury and wantonness of the court, as contrasted with the misery of many of their subjects.

  • Some fine mosaics have been here unearthed and immediately destroyed, in sheer wantonness, by the natives quarrying building-stone.

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