wantonness
Deliberate moral abandon
Wantonness is the quality of acting without restraint, care, or regard for consequences.
It can describe reckless cruelty: the wantonness of the destruction shocked even hardened soldiers.
In older usage, wantonness suggests sexual looseness or immodesty.
The word carries moral judgment—implying behavior that is willfully excessive or gratuitously harmful: Such wantonness cannot go unpunished.
Overtly sexual in manner
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
- lecherousShowing excessive sexual desire
obscene · debauched · carnal · lustful · licentiousness · promiscuity · immodesty · indecency
Pursuit of enjoyment
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- voluptuousnessSensual abundance and curves
- sybaritismPursuit of luxury
- libertinismUnrestrained indulgence in pleasure
self-indulgence · gratification · carnality · sensualism · dissipation · revelry · bacchanalia · decadence
Failure to notice danger
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- rashnessImprudent haste in action
- abandonLeave behind permanently
- imprudenceUnwise decision-making
thoughtlessness · irresponsibility · disregard · negligence · capriciousness · impetuosity · wildness · unruliness
Intent to cause harm
- maliciousnessIntent to cause harm
- gratuitousGiven without necessity
- needlessNot required
- unprovokedWithout prior instigation
senseless · mercilessness · brutality · callousness · heartlessness · viciousness · spitefulness · willfulness
Reckless, wasteful extravagance
- wastefulnessCareless use of resources
- squanderingReckless depletion of resources
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- prodigalityReckless, wasteful expenditure
excess · immoderation · overindulgence · gluttony · intemperance · dissipation · luxuriousness · opulence
lascivious
Overtly sexual in manner
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
lecherous · obscene · debauched · carnal · lustful · licentiousness · promiscuity · immodesty · indecency · shamelessness
pleasure-seeking
Pursuit of enjoyment
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- voluptuousnessSensual abundance and curves
- sybaritismPursuit of luxury
libertinism · self-indulgence · gratification · carnality · sensualism · dissipation · revelry · bacchanalia · decadence · epicureanism
heedlessness
Failure to notice danger
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- rashnessImprudent haste in action
- abandonLeave behind permanently
imprudence · thoughtlessness · irresponsibility · disregard · negligence · capriciousness · impetuosity · wildness · unruliness · lawlessness
malice
Intent to cause harm
- maliciousnessIntent to cause harm
- gratuitousGiven without necessity
- needlessNot required
unprovoked · senseless · mercilessness · brutality · callousness · heartlessness · viciousness · spitefulness · willfulness · capricious
profligacy
Reckless, wasteful extravagance
- wastefulnessCareless use of resources
- squanderingReckless depletion of resources
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
prodigality · excess · immoderation · overindulgence · gluttony · intemperance · dissipation · luxuriousness · opulence · sumptuousness
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- faultfault, gross negligence, culpa, criminal negligence, recklessness
- sexual sinsfornication, adultery, lust, lechery, lewdness
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- foolishnessfoolishness, silliness, foolish, stupid, folly
wantonnessrestraint
Control over impulses
self-control · temperance · moderation · self-discipline · abstinence
wantonnesschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
virtue · purity · modesty · celibacy · abstinence
wantonnesspurposefulness
Having deliberate intent
deliberateness · justification · necessity · carefulness · intentionality