neat-freakery

noun

Obsessive tidiness or cleanliness; behavior characteristic of neat freaks.

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Meanings

nounneat-freakery (uncountable)
  1. USinformalrareuncountableObsessive tidiness or cleanliness; behavior characteristic of neat freaks.

    Oskar's neat-freakery only made minuscule 'lapses' like that more noticeable. He had the assistance of a cleaner, of course. But how thorough was the cleaner? London was full of Eastern European women working as domestic cleaners, but I ...

    2012, Will Wiles, Care of Wooden Floors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 17
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    need him right now, and his neat-freakery. I definitely don't want to move in with him. The man keeps all his shoes in labelled boxes according to their Pantone shade!” Zoë and I laughed out loud; well aware that Lauren was exaggerating, but the ...

    2014, Sarah Clark, Viva Voluptuous, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN

    He got up and grabbed his T-shirt from the neat pile on the chair beside the bed. When we first started dating, he'd toss his clothes onto the floor with abandon, but my neat-freakery has changed all that. "No." He held up a hand, one pant leg.

    2016, C.L. Taylor, The Lie, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN

Origin

From neat freak + -ery.

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