tidiness
IPA: tˈɪdinʌs
noun
- The quality of being tidy.
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Examples of "tidiness" in Sentences
- The beauty of tidiness is used as a justification for despotism.
- The bed rose up from this sea of refuse like a small island of tidiness.
- He had a great many housewifely ways, and his tidiness was a satisfaction to Grandma
- And there can be tidiness * and* clutter – real wunderkammers were, after all, well-organized.
- Why would a kid want to clean up his toys in service of "tidiness" when they're so much easier to find on the floor?
- But scrupulous tidiness takes time and Gerald the perfectionist lost his chance to go elk hunting up north in Ten Sleep country.
- It is the very lack of tidiness, the Starbucks spill, the torn corners that make it something than is much more than the sum of its parts.
- Neatness, tidiness, is easy: gaze upon a manicured lawn, a minimalist room, where there is nothing to disrupt or offend one’s line of sight, and there is nothing to think about, nothing to provoke the imagination.
- When in the presence of Irish, blacks wallowed in filth and idleness but “where the blacks were found by themselves, we generally encountered tidiness, and some sincere attempt at industry and honest self-support.”
- For example, we want to send them the messages of tidiness and responsibility for their belongings, so, every evening before they go to bed, our girls pile their books on the coffee table in our living room and put away their toys in their bedrooms.
- Last year, she met with Yemeni-American community leaders to explain how to pack airplane luggage, after two Michigan men of Yemeni descent taped bottles of Pepto-Bismol to cellphones in their checked bags—apparently for tidiness—, inadvertently triggering fears of a bombing plot.
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