unrestraint

[ uhn-ri-streynt ]

noun

1. absence of or freedom from restraint.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unrestraint¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; un- ¹ + restraint

Example Sentences

He had never spoken with such fathoms of unrestraint.

From The New Yorker

But the album, recorded live in the studio, also captures a sense of thrilling unrestraint, a willingness to push intuition past the point of comfort.

From New York Times

Some exquisites would be closely buttoned to the chin, while the lapels of others would open wide in all the expansive freedom of republican unrestraint.

From Project Gutenberg

Swinburne clings to that belief in sentiment which marks the Victorian era, but Swinburne finds the key to life in unrestraint instead of in restraint.

From Project Gutenberg

There is something here besides a sense that the joyousness of simple free-living and the loyalty of love-service are passing away; he attributes much of the social decline to national confusion and the political unrestraint.

From Project Gutenberg