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English
Etymology
From orderly + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
orderliness (usually uncountable, plural orderlinesses)
- 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 [...].
- Orderly behaviour.
Translations
regularity; proper arrangement