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/ˈwɒntənnəs/ · noun
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior..
The ſpirit of vvantonness is, ſure, ſcared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-ſimple, vvith fine and recovery, he vvill never, I think, in the vvay of vvaſte, attempt us again.
A vvantonneſſe in vvealth, methinks I agree not vvith, / Tis ſuch a trouble to be married too, / And have a thouſand things of great importance, / Jevvells and plates, and fooleries moleſt mee, / To have a mans brains vvhimſied with his vvealth: […]
A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: […]
The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […]
The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.
Use wantonness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wantonness means (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior..
Common synonyms include abandon, licentiousness, unconstraint, sexual immorality.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The ſpirit of vvantonness is, ſure, ſcared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-ſimple, vvith fine and recovery, he vvill never, I think, in the vvay of vvaſte, attempt us again.
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