Usually means: Deviation from expected or prescribed behavior.
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  1. waywardness: Merriam-Webster
  2. waywardness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waywardness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. waywardness: Wordnik
  5. waywardness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. waywardness: Wiktionary
  7. waywardness: Dictionary.com
  8. waywardness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. waywardness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. waywardness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. waywardness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality of being wayward.

Similar:
wanderingness, wildishness, undisciplinedness, wildness, erraticness, unwilfulness, feralness, untowardliness, ferity, ferality, more...

Opposite:
conformity, normalcy, regularity

Types:
recalcitrance, contrariness, willfulness, perverseness, obstinacy, stubbornness, headstrongness, more...

Adjectives:
own, human, such, mere, certain, very, unruly, youthful, natural, moral, much

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Similar:
wanderingness, wildishness, undisciplinedness, wildness, erraticness, unwilfulness, feralness, untowardliness, ferity, ferality, more...

Opposite:
conformity, normalcy, regularity

Types:
recalcitrance, contrariness, willfulness, perverseness, obstinacy, stubbornness, headstrongness, more...

Adjectives:
own, human, such, mere, certain, very, unruly, youthful, natural, moral, much



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