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Wantonness vs Dallying - What's the difference?

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Wantonness is a related term of dallying.


As nouns the difference between wantonness and dallying

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

As a verb dallying is

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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.

    • dallying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • dalliance
  • *
    • Nevertheless, you must know (if I am to speak honestly to you) that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields.