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Coquettishness vs Wantonness - What's the difference?

coquettishness | wantonness |

As nouns the difference between coquettishness and wantonness

is that coquettishness is the state or quality of being coquettish while wantonness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.

coquettishness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or quality of being coquettish.

    • wantonness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
  • *1897 , , Dracula , ch. 16,
  • *:The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness .
  • (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
  • *1882 , , History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty , Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366,
  • *:These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.