noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being tidy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tidiness
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noun
Meaning 2
the trait of being neat and orderly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: neatness
Antonyms: untidiness
Broader terms: cleanliness
noun
Meaning 3
the habit of being tidy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: untidiness
Broader terms: orderliness, order
Narrower terms: neatness, spruceness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English tidy 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 tidiness From tidy + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: هِنْدَام (hindām) — the quality of being tidy
- Bashkir: тәртип (tərtip) — the quality of being tidy
- Bengali: পারিপাট্য (paripaṭṭo) — the quality of being tidy
- Bulgarian: спретнатост (spretnatost) — the quality of being tidy
- Dutch: netheid — the quality of being tidy
- Dutch: zindelijkheid — the quality of being tidy
- Finnish: siivo — the quality of being tidy
- Georgian: სიკოხტავე (siḳoxṭave) — the quality of being tidy
- German: Ordnung — the quality of being tidy
- Ingrian: siivo — the quality of being tidy
- Irish: ordúlacht — the quality of being tidy
- Irish: slacht — the quality of being tidy
- Italian: compostezza — the quality of being tidy
- Latin: munditia — the quality of being tidy
- Latvian: tīrīgums — the quality of being tidy
- Latvian: spodrība — the quality of being tidy
- Latvian: kārtība — the quality of being tidy
- Occitan: netetat — the quality of being tidy
- Portuguese: asseio — the quality of being tidy
- Russian: опря́тность (oprjátnostʹ) — the quality of being tidy
- Russian: аккура́тность (akkurátnostʹ) — the quality of being tidy
- Slovak: upravenosť — the quality of being tidy
- Slovak: úhľadnosť — the quality of being tidy
- Spanish: aseo — the quality of being tidy
- Swedish: ordning — the quality of being tidy