orderliness

English

Etymology

From orderly +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔːdəlɪnəs/

Noun

orderliness (usually uncountable, plural orderlinesses)

  1. The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.
    • 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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