Orderlinesses

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The quality of being arranged or organized in a systematic manner
2. the state of maintaining neatness and structure in a particular environment
3. an attribute that reflects methodical conformity to rules or standards

Etymology: "Orderlinesses" is the plural of "orderliness," which is formed from "orderly" plus the suffix "-ness." The base word, "orderly," comes from "order" with the suffix "-ly," which in Old English (as "-līċ") meant "having the form or quality of," so an orderly thing was one having the quality of order. "Order" itself traces back through Old French "ordne" and Latin "ōrdinem," meaning a row, rank, or arrangement, and the Latin word goes back to the Proto-Italic root "ordō." The suffix "-ness" is an old and productive English ending, descending from Old English "-nes," which turns an adjective into a noun naming a quality or state. Adding it to "orderly" yields the abstract idea of being orderly, and the plural form pluralizes that abstraction for cases where several distinct instances of neatness or structure are meant.

Synonyms: tidiness, neatness, organization, systematicness, methodicalness

Antonyms: disorder, messiness, chaos, disorganization, clutter