Synonyms and Antonyms of wantonness
1
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others - the wantonness with which the punishment was carried out
atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelty, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness
ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness
bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity
cattiness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness
hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness
2
the quality or state of being obscene - novels characterized chiefly by their sheer wantonness
bawdiness, blueness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, filth, filthiness, foulness, grossness, impureness, impurity, indecency, lasciviousness, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, smuttiness, vulgarity
broadness, earthiness, gaminess, raciness, saltiness, suggestiveness
immodesty, indecorousness, indelicacy, indelicateness, lowness, unbecomingness
lechery
depravedness, depravity, kinkiness, naughtiness, perverseness, perversion, perversity, pervertedness, wickedness
abusiveness, scurrilousness
loathsomeness, offensiveness, repellency, repugnance, repulsiveness
distastefulness, obnoxiousness, unpleasantness
priggery, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanism
correctness, decency, decorousness, decorum, seemliness
immaculateness, perfection, purity, spotlessness
