orderliness

English

Etymology

From orderly +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdəlɪnəs/

Noun

orderliness (usually uncountable, plural orderlinesses)

The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 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

regularity; proper arrangement

Dutch: orde (nl)
French: ordre (fr) m
Irish: ordúlacht f, innealtacht f

Spanish: orden (es) m
Swedish: ordning (sv) c

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