untidiness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English un-

English tidy

English untidy

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English untidiness

From untidy + -ness.

Noun

untidiness (countable and uncountable, plural untidinesses)

1. The quality of being untidy.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

     There was a slight air of untidiness—or rather, perhaps, an absence of spruceness in any detail—about his general appearance […]

   • 1953 April, “Arrears of Station Maintenance”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

     Mr. Elliot's frank statement that "sloth and untidiness are indefensible" is a sign that the task will be tackled with vigour.

Antonyms

• tidiness

Related terms

• dirtiness
• scruffiness

Translations

the quality of being untidy

• Bulgarian: безпорядък (bg) m (bezporjadăk)
• Dalmatian: desorden m
• Dutch: slordigheid (nl) f
• Georgian: უსუფთაობა (usuptaoba)
• German: Schlamperei (de) f
• Greek: ατσαλιά (el) f (atsaliá)
• Hungarian: rendetlenség (hu)
• Irish: liopastacht f, amscaíocht f
• Italian: disordine (it) m, sciatteria (it) f, sciattezza f
• Latin: immunditia f
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: rot (nn) n

• Polish: nieporządek (pl) m, nieład (pl) m
• Russian: беспоря́док (ru) m (besporjádok), сви́нство (ru) n (svínstvo) (colloquial)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-chruinnealas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: не̏уредно̄ст f

  Latin: nȅurednōst (sh) f

• Spanish: desaseo (es) m

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