diff --git a/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp b/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp
--- a/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp
+++ b/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp
@@ -703,6 +703,7 @@
     reload();
 
     observeChanges(textareaUi->chkAnimateBracketMatching);
+    observeChanges(textareaUi->chkDynWrapAnywhere);
     observeChanges(textareaUi->chkDynWrapAtStaticMarker);
     observeChanges(textareaUi->chkFoldFirstLine);
     observeChanges(textareaUi->chkShowIndentationLines);
@@ -762,6 +763,7 @@
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::BookmarkSorting, bordersUi->rbSortBookmarksByPosition->isChecked() ? 0 : 1);
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::DynWordWrapAlignIndent, textareaUi->sbDynamicWordWrapDepth->value());
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::DynWordWrapIndicators, textareaUi->cmbDynamicWordWrapIndicator->currentIndex());
+    KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::DynWrapAnywhere, textareaUi->chkDynWrapAnywhere->isChecked());
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::DynWrapAtStaticMarker, textareaUi->chkDynWrapAtStaticMarker->isChecked());
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::FoldFirstLine, textareaUi->chkFoldFirstLine->isChecked());
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::ScrollBarMiniMapWidth, bordersUi->spBoxMiniMapWidth->value());
@@ -798,6 +800,7 @@
     bordersUi->spBoxMiniMapWidth->setValue(KateViewConfig::global()->scrollBarMiniMapWidth());
 
     textareaUi->chkAnimateBracketMatching->setChecked(KateRendererConfig::global()->animateBracketMatching());
+    textareaUi->chkDynWrapAnywhere->setChecked(KateViewConfig::global()->dynWrapAnywhere());
     textareaUi->chkDynWrapAtStaticMarker->setChecked(KateViewConfig::global()->dynWrapAtStaticMarker());
     textareaUi->chkFoldFirstLine->setChecked(KateViewConfig::global()->foldFirstLine());
     textareaUi->chkShowIndentationLines->setChecked(KateRendererConfig::global()->showIndentationLines());
diff --git a/src/dialogs/textareaappearanceconfigwidget.ui b/src/dialogs/textareaappearanceconfigwidget.ui
--- a/src/dialogs/textareaappearanceconfigwidget.ui
+++ b/src/dialogs/textareaappearanceconfigwidget.ui
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@
         </property>
        </widget>
       </item>
+      <item>
+       <widget class="QCheckBox" name="chkDynWrapAnywhere">
+        <property name="text">
+         <string>Disregard word boundaries for dynamic wrapping</string>
+        </property>
+       </widget>
+      </item>
       <item>
        <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="horizontalLayout_3" stretch="0,0">
         <property name="spacing">
@@ -55,7 +62,7 @@
             <item>
              <widget class="QLabel" name="lblDynamicWordWrapIndicators">
               <property name="text">
-               <string>Dynamic word wrap &amp;indicators (if applicable):</string>
+               <string>D&amp;ynamic word wrap indicators (if applicable):</string>
               </property>
               <property name="buddy">
                <cstring>cmbDynamicWordWrapIndicator</cstring>
diff --git a/src/render/katerenderer.cpp b/src/render/katerenderer.cpp
--- a/src/render/katerenderer.cpp
+++ b/src/render/katerenderer.cpp
@@ -1018,7 +1018,11 @@
     QTextOption opt;
     opt.setFlags(QTextOption::IncludeTrailingSpaces);
     opt.setTabStopDistance(m_tabWidth * m_fontMetrics.horizontalAdvance(spaceChar));
-    opt.setWrapMode(QTextOption::WrapAtWordBoundaryOrAnywhere);
+    if (m_view->config()->dynWrapAnywhere()) {
+        opt.setWrapMode(QTextOption::WrapAnywhere);
+    } else {
+        opt.setWrapMode(QTextOption::WrapAtWordBoundaryOrAnywhere);
+    }
 
     // Find the first strong character in the string.
     // If it is an RTL character, set the base layout direction of the string to RTL.
diff --git a/src/utils/kateconfig.h b/src/utils/kateconfig.h
--- a/src/utils/kateconfig.h
+++ b/src/utils/kateconfig.h
@@ -956,6 +956,7 @@
         DefaultMarkType,
         DynWordWrapAlignIndent,
         DynWordWrapIndicators,
+        DynWrapAnywhere,
         DynWrapAtStaticMarker,
         DynamicWordWrap,
         FoldFirstLine,
@@ -1012,6 +1013,10 @@
     {
         setValue(DynamicWordWrap, on);
     }
+    bool dynWrapAnywhere() const
+    {
+        return value(DynWrapAnywhere).toBool();
+    }
 
     bool dynWrapAtStaticMarker() const
     {
diff --git a/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp b/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp
--- a/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(DefaultMarkType, "Default Mark Type", QStringLiteral("default-mark-type"), KTextEditor::MarkInterface::markType01, [](const QVariant &value) { return isPositive(value); }));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(DynWordWrapAlignIndent, "Dynamic Word Wrap Align Indent", QString(), 80, [](const QVariant &value) { return inBounds(1, value, 100); }));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(DynWordWrapIndicators, "Dynamic Word Wrap Indicators", QString(), 1, [](const QVariant &value) { return inBounds(1, value, 3); }));
+    addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(DynWrapAnywhere, "Dynamic Wrap not at word boundaries", QStringLiteral("dynamic-word-wrap-anywhere"), false));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(DynWrapAtStaticMarker, "Dynamic Word Wrap At Static Marker", QString(), false));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(DynamicWordWrap, "Dynamic Word Wrap", QStringLiteral("dynamic-word-wrap"), true));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(FoldFirstLine, "Fold First Line", QString(), false));