orderliness
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔːdəlɪnəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]orderliness (usually uncountable, plural orderlinesses)
- The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.
- 1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
- Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 205:
- Voltaire had drawn on Newton to demonstrate an allegedly divine orderliness in the natural world which left no space for God's intervention in human affairs [...].
- Orderly behaviour.
Translations
[edit]regularity; proper arrangement
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