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Licentiousness vs Wantonness - What's the difference?

licentiousness | wantonness |

As nouns the difference between licentiousness and wantonness

is that licentiousness is the property of being licentious while wantonness is the state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.

licentiousness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The property of being licentious.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1648 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= Miscellanea Spiritualia , url= http://ia700305.us.archive.org/3/items/miscellaneaspiri00mont/miscellaneaspiri00mont_bw.pdf , original= , chapter= Of Scurrility , section = 2 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 144 , passage= ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse , in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith , whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ... }}

    Synonyms

    * debauchery

    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.