Crossword clues for orderliness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orderliness \Or"der*li*ness\, n. The state or quality of being orderly.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement. 2 Orderly behaviour.
WordNet
n. the quality of appreciating method and system [syn: methodicalness]
a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" [syn: order] [ant: disorderliness, disorderliness]
Wikipedia
Orderliness is associated with other qualities such as cleanliness and diligence—and the desire for order and symmetry, and is generally considered to be a desirable quality.
In psychology, an excessive desire for orderliness can be associated with obsessive–compulsive disorder and the term anal retentive, (or simply anal)—from Freudian psychoanalysis—is used conversationally to describe a person with such attention to orderliness and detail that it becomes close to a mental disorder. On the other side, excessive disorderliness may be associated with a tendency to hoard to collect objects compulsively ( compulsive hoarding).
Professional organizing services support individuals and organizations find ways to achieve and maintain ways to be organized, including de-cluttering and maintaining an orderly environment.
Usage examples of "orderliness".
Thought of the First Principle: thus a Law of Justice goes with all that exists in the Universe which, otherwise, would be dissolved, and is perdurable because the entire fabric is guided as much by the orderliness as by the power of the controlling force.
This relative maintenance of orderliness at sea was due to special conditions--the then recent discovery of radio communications, for example.
The story of German life during this interval is a rowdy and unhappy story--a story of faction fights and street encounters, demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, of a complicating tyranny of blackmailing officials, and at last of an ill managed and unsuccessful war, that belied the innate orderliness of the Teutonic peoples.
The first cholera epidemic found her in the throes not only of famine but of civil disorder, controlled and suppressed by her highly mechanized army and by the still very powerful habits of orderliness and subordination in her people.
There are constant complaints of the dirtiness of the streets and the bad repair of the roads, and regretful comparisons with the trim orderliness of twenty years before.
For there was an orderliness and a sense of proportion and of form which did not occur in nature, even in an alien nature on the planet of an unknown star far removed from Earth.
I suppose it comes because of a desire for neatness, an orderliness of mind.
Others retained a certain ornamental beauty or an orderliness that hinted of meaning, as a rosary might suggest a necklace to a nomad.
Now, if the sight of Beauty excellently reproduced upon a face hurries the mind to that other Sphere, surely no one seeing the loveliness lavish in the world of sense--this vast orderliness, the Form which the stars even in their remoteness display--no one could be so dull-witted, so immoveable, as not to be carried by all this to recollection, and gripped by reverent awe in the thought of all this, so great, sprung from that greatness.
The garden was a model of orderliness, with rows of cauliflowers and winter cabbage, leeks and Brussels sprouts and, under cloches along one wall, neat rows of seedlings.
That was what all her tidiness and orderliness around the house were about.
Plants in macrame hangers, pictures, and a stained-glass image of Kokopelli, the flute player, in the window kept the orderliness from being oppressive.
Ayla had an inherent sense of orderliness, reinforced by Iza who had to maintain a systematic arrangement of her store of medicines.
But there was that orderliness and shine to everything I had never seen before in this house.
Now, there is the orderliness of a lady in the arrangement of her room, and the orderliness of a maid, and the two things, believe me, are widely different.