tidyness

tidyness

English

Etymology

tidy +‎ -ness

Noun

tidyness (uncountable)

1. Archaic spelling of tidiness.
   • 1891, Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer, p. 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, p. 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, p. 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.