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.
   • 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.

Translations

regularity; proper arrangement

• Bulgarian: ред (bg) m (red), порядък (bg) m (porjadǎk)
• Dutch: orde (nl)
• French: ordre (fr) m
• German: Ordentlichkeit f
• Irish: ordúlacht f, innealtacht f
• Kazakh: тәртіптілік (tärtıptılık)
• Kyrgyz: тартиптүүлүк (ky) (tartiptüülük)
• Russian: упорядоченность (ru) (uporjadočennostʹ)
• Spanish: orden (es) m
• Swedish: ordning (sv) c