Meanings
- archaicuncountableArchaic spelling of tidiness.
They didn't know discipline, nor did they know cleanliness or tidyness, and you made them into what you yourself had become, rootless and restless.
2010, Kleopatra Kristbjörg, Copy Cat World: The Book That Has Saved Many Lives, page 222 more examples
[…] he then spoke of tidyness, by which he did not mean primness or formality. Tidyness in his garden was a necessity, and formality an abhorrence.
1891, Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer, page 515The twelve-year-old boys showed preference for aggressiveness, boisterousness, and unkemptness, but by the age of fifteen, the trait tidy or unkempt had become reversed and tidyness showed a positive value.
1966, Mary Shaw Ryan, Clothing; a Study in Human Behavior, page 264
Origin
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