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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.

Gower.

The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into

wantonness

Eikon Basilike.

Young gentlemen would be as sad as night
Only for

wantonness

Shakespeare

Noun.

Sportiveness; gaiety; frolicsomeness; waggery.

--As sad as night, only for wantonness.

Licentiousness; negligence of restraint.

The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.

Lasciviousness; lewdness. Romans 8. II Peter 2.

wantonness ‎(usually uncountable, plural wantonnesses)

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