tidyness

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English

Etymology

From tidy +‎ -ness.

Noun

tidyness (uncountable)

  1. Archaic spelling of tidiness.
    • 1891, Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer, page 515:
      [] he then spoke of tidyness, by which he did not mean primness or formality. Tidyness in his garden was a necessity, and formality an abhorrence.
    • 1966, Mary Shaw Ryan, Clothing; a Study in Human Behavior, page 264:
      The twelve-year-old boys showed preference for aggressiveness, boisterousness, and unkemptness, but by the age of fifteen, the trait tidy or unkempt had become reversed and tidyness showed a positive value.
    • 2010, Kleopatra Kristbjörg, Copy Cat World: The Book That Has Saved Many Lives, page 22:
      They didn't know discipline, nor did they know cleanliness or tidyness, and you made them into what you yourself had become, rootless and restless.