orderliness

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English

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Etymology

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From orderly +‎ -ness.

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Noun

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orderliness (usually uncountable, plural orderlinesses)

  1. The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.
    • 1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
      Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 205:
      Voltaire had drawn on Newton to demonstrate an allegedly divine orderliness in the natural world which left no space for God's intervention in human affairs [...].
  2. Orderly behaviour.

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