well-kemptness

noun

The state or quality of being well-kempt.

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Meanings

nounwell-kemptness (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableThe state or quality of being well-kempt.

    There was an air of well-kemptness. Nothing grand, nothing flashy, just a sense that all was well and that upkeep on the houses was no problem.

    1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, page 51
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    Achieve a standard of well-kemptness in a street - and this applies equally to a nineteenth century part of Bolton and to rich suburban Altrincham - and people will keep their paint-work spick and span.

    1969, Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund, Socialist vanguard group (contributors), Socialist Commentary, page IV

    I suspect that the heart of the power of the visit lay in the weird bipolar nature of the site — its general well-kemptness (at the lower levels anyhow) yet its utter abandonment and emptiness.

    1998, Reynolds Price, Learning a Trade, A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997, page 437

Origin

From well-kempt + -ness.

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