From neat + -ness. neatness (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">neatnesses</span>) The state of being neat. 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of...
inuention to such methodicall and orderly proceedings, as the elegantnes and <span class="searchmatch">neatnesse</span> of his Latine phrase (being pure, perfect, and vnmingled) maketh the matter...