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Definition of Tidiness

1. Noun. The habit of being tidy.

Definition of Tidiness

1. n. The quality or state of being tidy.

Definition of Tidiness

1. Noun. The quality of being tidy. ¹

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Definition of Tidiness

1. the state of being tidy [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidiness

Literary usage of Tidiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Word to Women by C E Humphry (1898)
"I think I could enumerate a few, but for the moment the vicious side of tidiness is so strongly borne in upon The vicious & ^ ** side of me that I need go ..."

2. Classroom Management: Its Principles and Technique by William Chandler Bagley (1907)
"Insuring tidiness of the Classroom. There are many conditions in a classroom that make for untidiness. Papers are easily dropped upon the floor, ..."

3. William Clarke: A Collection of His Writings, with a Biographical Sketch by William Clarke (1908)
"... Any lint, 14, 1897] THE principal impression of rural England derived by an American writer in the Daily Mail is one of tidiness, of absolute finish. ..."

4. The Child's Mind, Its Growth and Training: Being a Short Study of Some by William Eddowes Urwick (1907)
"B. Immediate Values in the School as a Society: Indirect means of cultivating them—Orderliness —Cleanliness—tidiness—Punctuality—Discipline : its relation ..."

5. Third Reading-book in the Primary School by Josiah Freeman Bumstead (1843)
"tidiness. RECOMMENDED. The Advantages of tidiness, and the Evils attending untidy Habits. 1. SHOW me a boy who is tidy; and I will show you one who will ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"tidiness is, in short, the being right in thousands of small concerns in which ... tidiness is a great source of cheerfulness ; and the more certainly will ..."

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