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Antonyms for waywardness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : wey-werd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪ wərd

Definition of waywardness

Origin :
  • late 14c., shortening of aweiward "turned away," from away + -ward.
  • As in mischief : noun trouble, damage
  • As in impishness : noun mischief
  • As in mischievousness : noun mischief
  • As in obstinateness : noun unruliness
  • As in obstreperousness : noun unruliness
  • As in prankishness : noun mischief
  • As in prankster : noun mischief
  • As in quirkiness : noun eccentricity
  • As in rascality : noun mischief
  • As in recalcitrance : noun unruliness
  • As in recalcitrancy : noun unruliness
  • As in refractoriness : noun unruliness
  • As in roguery : noun mischief
  • As in roguishness : noun mischief
  • As in shenanigan : noun mischief
  • As in singularity : noun eccentricity
  • As in uncontrollability : noun unruliness
  • As in uncontrollableness : noun unruliness
  • As in ungovernableness : noun unruliness
  • As in unmanageability : noun unruliness
  • As in untowardness : noun unruliness
  • As in disobedience : noun misbehavior; noncompliance with rules
  • As in eccentricity : noun bizarreness, unusualness
Example sentences :
  • She seemed to be incapable of wasting time or of waywardness.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • No one else knew so well as he the immense power and the waywardness of the Mississippi.
  • Extract from : « James B. Eads » by Louis How
  • Wandsworth High Street twists and winds with the waywardness of a river.
  • Extract from : « The Combined Maze » by May Sinclair
  • Allow me to delay my departure a few hours, dear waywardness!
  • Extract from : « Cyrano de Bergerac » by Edmond Rostand
  • Love, unconquered, unconquerable by human sin and waywardness.
  • Extract from : « Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • What, wouldst turn on me with mine own waywardness, and cross me for being undutiful?
  • Extract from : « Hildebrand » by Anonymous
  • There is a waywardness in such an affection that formal man knows not of.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of My Dead Life » by George Moore
  • He did good work in his line, but nothing is more peculiar to the man than his waywardness.
  • Extract from : « Alone » by Norman Douglas
  • Ever since we were boys I have liked you and befriended you, and borne with your waywardness.
  • Extract from : « The Queen Against Owen » by Allen Upward
  • And these most wonderful and providential beings their own waywardness had driven from them.
  • Extract from : « Hydesville » by Thomas Olman Todd

Synonyms for waywardness

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