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NEATNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trait of being neat and orderly
Synonyms:
neatness; tidiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("neatness" is a kind of...):
cleanliness (diligence in keeping clean)
Derivation:
neat (clean or organized)
tidy ((of hair) neat and tidy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being neat and smart and trim
Synonyms:
neatness; spruceness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("neatness" is a kind of...):
tidiness (the habit of being tidy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neatness"):
trim; trimness (a state of arrangement or appearance)
Context examples:
Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
On the other hand, it was furnished with the neatness and taste which belonged to his character, so that his most luxurious friends found something in the tiny rooms which made them discontented with their own sumptuous mansions.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He wrote with extraordinary neatness.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were in the parlour, he welcomed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife's offers of refreshment.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
For my part, I slipped into the smithy, where Boy Jim was finishing the shoe, and I watched the neatness of his work and the deft way in which he turned up the caulkens.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For this he had drawn a note-of-hand with great neatness, which he handed over to Traddles on the spot, a discharge of his debt in full (as between man and man), with many acknowledgements.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
