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Definitions: Neatness |
NeatnessNoun1. The state of being neat and smart and trim. 2. The trait of being neat and orderly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "neatness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: NeatnessSynonyms: spruceness (n), tidiness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: untidiness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Neatness |
| English words defined with "neatness": anal personality, anal retentive personality ♦ dowdiness, drabness ♦ frowsy, frowzy ♦ homeliness ♦ neatly ♦ scraggly, shipshape, showing neatness, Slatter, sloppy, slovenly, Slowenly ♦ Trigness, trim ♦ well-kept. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "neatness": dining-room manager ♦ HOST/HOSTESS, RESTAURANT ♦ Neat as Wax, neat hack ♦ SUPERVISOR, MAPPING, SUPERVISOR, STENO POOL ♦ waiter/waitress, head, WIRE-WRAPPING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But I've never trusted neatness. Neatness has always been the form of very deliberate planning. (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | With Neatness and Dispatch (1918) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francois FTNelon | Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She was trying to see it in a mirror behind the counter without letting the truck driver know, and so she pretended to push a bit of hair to neatness. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | These multinationals strive to impress the client with an esthetical image of rapid service, neatness, modernism, and professionalism. (references) | |
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| "Neatness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neatness" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 78 | 37,656 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "neatness": showing neatness. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
neatness | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "neatness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rregull (cleanliness, cosmos, discipline, institution, law, method, nomocracy, order, orderliness, precept, procedure, regularity, regulation, right, rights, rule, shape, tidiness), mjeshtëri (accomplishment, art, artifice, artistry, experience, expertise, finesse, hand, handicraft, masterliness, mastership, mastery, profession, proficiency, skill, workmanship), aftësi (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, bent, capability, capacity, disposition, facility, faculty, flair, gift, hand, knack, know how, power, proficiency, qualification, science, skill, talent, value). (various references) | |
Arabic | نعومة (daintiness, fineness, mellowness, smoothness, softness, velvet), نظافة (cleanliness, cleanness, going-over, purgation, purity, tidiness), نظام ونظافة, إتقان (perfection), أهلية (aptitude, aptly, competence, desert, domestication, legitimacy, qualification, qualifications), أناقة (chic, daintiness, deftness, elegance, fineness, finery, richness, smartness, sophistication, sport, style, stylishness, suavity), رقة (airiness, benignity, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, forgiveness, geniality, gentleness, graciousness, loveliness, polish, refinement, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sleeplessness, softness, suavity, subtlety, tenderling, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | яснота (clarity, clearness, crispness, definition, distinctness, fairness, limpidity, lucidity, perspicuity, vividness), стройност, уместност (advisability, appropriateness, felicity, pertinence, poignancy, propriety, relevance, relevancy), спретнатост (tidiness), четливост (legibility, readability), точност (accuracy, delicacy, distinctness, exactitude, exactness, expedition, fidelity, literality, minuteness, nearness, nicety, particularity, precision, promptitude, punctuality, rigor, rigour, strictness), елегантност (cachet, dash, distinction, elegance, elegancy, fineness, grace, gracefulness, graces, polish, style, stylishness), ловкост (address, adroitness, agility, diplomacy, legerdemain, skill, sleight, sleight of hand, subtlety), изкусност (subtlety), изисканост (accomplishments, class, daintiness, elegance, elegancy, polish, politeness, refinement, stylishness, suavity, subtlety, urbanity), добро изпълнение. (various references) | |
Czech | uklizenost, elegance (elegance, euphuism, graciousness, smartness, sophistication, style), èistota (cleanliness, cleanness, purity, tidiness). (various references) | |
Finnish | somuus (daintiness, prettiness), sirous (gracefulness). (various references) | |
French | netteté (ness), propreté, ordonnance, habileté, finesse, adresse. (various references) | |
German | reinlichkeit (cleanliness, clearness, purity, tidiness), Nettigkeit (niceness, pleasantry). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαριότησ (cleanliness), καθαριότητα (cleanliness, cleanness), κομψότησ (jauntiness, prettiness, primness, rakishness, smartness, spruceness, stylishness, trigness, trimmness), κομψότητα (comeliness, daintiness, elegance, elegancy, jauntiness, prettiness, primness, rakishness, smartness, spruceness, stylishness, trigness, trimmness), νοικοκυροσύνη (tidiness), πάστρα (cleanliness), απλότητα (homeliness, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, singleness), τάξη (category, class, collating sequence, grade, order, orderliness, range, rank, rate, rating, sequence, set, stimulus response movements that are...readily observed in the lower animals, taxis, taxon, trim). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צחות (clarity, freshness, lucidity, purity), ס"ר ו קיון (tidiness), קיון (cleanliness, pureness, purity, sterility). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tisztaság (brightness, chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, Maidenhead, purity), választékosság (elegance, elegancy, ornateness), talpraesettség, takaros volta vminek (tidiness), szellemesség (esprit, facetiousness, salt, sparkle, wit), jártasság (craft, cunning, deftness, familiarity, proficiency, routine, skill), elegancia (chic, elegance, elegancy, gracefulness, style, stylishness), csinosság (prettiness, tidiness), ízléses volta vminek, ápoltság. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kecermatan (accuracy, accurateness, frugality), keberesan, keapian (tidiness). (various references) | |
Italian | semplicit (artlessness, elementariness, homeliness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity), pulizia (cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, purity, sweeping), grazia (charm, Favor, favour, grace, gracefulness, mercy, pardon, prettiness, reprieve), concisione (brevity, compactness, concision, terseness), armonia (balance, concord, concordance, harmonics, harmoniousness, harmony, keeping), accuratezza; pulizia, accuratezza (accuracy, carefulness, nattiness, precision). (various references) | |
Manx | stuittid, skeoighid (cosiness, smartness, snugness, spruceness, tidiness, trimness), lhomid (bareness), jeshid (applicability, elegance, propriety, righthandedness;nicety, seemliness, smartness, suitability). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatnessnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | limpeza (blanking, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, cleansing, cleanup, comb out, dirt removal, erasing, erasure, isolation, mop up, purity, refining, rubdown, scour, washing, wipe), habilidade (ability, accomplishments, acquaintance, acquirement, address, adroitness, art, asset, cleverness, come off, competence, competency, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dexterity, diplomacy, dodge, dodgery, facility, genius, gimmick, hand, ingenuous, knack, know how, put off, savvy, science, shift, skill, tact, trick), cuidado (accuracy, attention, care, caution, heed, keeping, labored, laboured, nix, nursing, outlook, painstaking, punctuality, river horse, safety first, solicitude, tendance, thought, vigilance, watch, watchout, worry), com bom gosto, bom gosto (good work), asseio (cleanliness, orderly, purity, tidiness). (various references) | |
Romanian | grijã (alarm, anxiety, attention, care, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, foresight, harassment, mindfulness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, worriment, worry), exactitate (accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, nicety, precision, punctuality, reliability, rightness, rigor, rigour, strictness), claritate (clarity, clearness, definition, distinctness, evidence, explicitness, fairness, limpidity, lucidity, palpability, perspicuity, simplicity, tangibility, transparency), acurateţe (accuracy, carefulness, nicety, orderliness), îngrijire (accuracy, attendance, attention, care, caution, nurse, nursing, solicitude, supervision, treatment). (various references) | |
Russian | аккуратность (exactitude, exactness, orderliness, tidiness). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgoinn (attention, care, efficacy, trimness), sgeilm , sgeinm, grinneas (beauty, elegance). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prikladnost (suitability), divota (splendor, splendour, stateliness). (various references) | |
Spanish | pulcritud (smartness), primor (ability, championship, skill, skillfulness, sleight, slickness), lo cuidado, lo atractivo (desirability), lo arreglado, habilidad (ability, address, adroitness, aptitude, aptness, artifice, capacity, cleverness, competence, competency, deftness, expertise, facility, habitably, know how, possibility, proficiency, prowess, savoir faire, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, sleight), esmero (care, carefulness), esbeltez (chic, slenderness), elegancia (chic, class, classiness, elegance, elegancy, fragrance, fragrancy, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, poise, smartness, stylishness, tastefulness, tone), buena proporción. (various references) | |
Swedish | prydlighet. (various references) | |
Thai | ความเป็นระเบียบเรียบร้อย (order). (various references) | |
Turkish | zariflik (elegance), temizlik (chastity, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanup, combout, house cleaning, hygiene, purge, purity). (various references) | |
Ukranian | чіткість (clearness, conciseness, concision, definition, legibility, nicety, readability, sharpness), чепурність, вправність (address, adroitness, artfulness, competence, competency, craft, deftness, efficiency, sharpness, subtlety), охайність (cleanliness, tidiness, titivation), майстерність (address, art, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, feat, finesse, handicraft, mastership, mastery, proficiency, skill, workmanship). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tinh xảo sự giản dị trang nhã, sự sạch gọn, sự ngắn gọn sự khéo léo, sự ngăn nắp sự rõ r ng r nh mạch, sự gọn g ng (tidiness). (various references) | |
Welsh | destlusrwydd. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cultu, cultui, cultum, cultus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "neatness": neatnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Neatness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enates, neathess, Nuanetsi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "neatness" (pronounced nē"tnus) |
| 5 | -ē" t n u s | completeness, sweetness. |
| 4 | -t n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, alertness, appropriateness, astuteness, bluntness, brightness, compactness, correctness, cuteness, directness, earnestness, eyewitness, faintness, fastness, fitness, flatness, forthrightness, gauntness, greatness, ineptness, inertness, lateness, lightfastness, lightness, politeness, quietness, remoteness, rightness, robustness, separateness, shortness, softness, steadfastness, stoutness, swiftness, tartness, tightness, unpleasantness, vastness, wetness, whiteness, witness. |
| 3 | -n u s | aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, arbitrariness, assertiveness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, competitiveness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, fairness, farsightedness, fickleness, firmness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, riskiness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, tardiness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: entases, neatens, sateens, senates, sennets, sensate. | |
-2 letters: anenst, assent, enates, neaten, sanest, sateen, senate, sennas, sennet, stanes, teases, tenses. | |
-3 letters: anent, antes, asset, eases, easts, eaten, enate, etnas, nates, neats, nenes, nests, sanes, sates, seats, senna, sensa, sense, sente, setae, stane, tasse, tease, teens, tense. | |
-4 letters: anes, ante, ants, ates, ease, east, eats, eses, etas, etna, nans, neat, nene, ness, nest, nets, sane, sans, sate, seas, seat, seen, sees, sene, sent, seta, sets, tans, tass, teas, teen, tees, tens. | |
-5 letters: ane, ant, ass, ate, eat, ens, ess, eta, nae, nan, nee, net, sae, sat, sea, see, sen, set, tae, tan, tas, tea, tee, ten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: antisense, insensate, setenants. | |
+2 letters: ascendents, innateness, nativeness, neatnesses, newsagents, ornateness, sustenance, tenantless. | |
+3 letters: abstinences, ancientness, animateness, condensates, descendants, earnestness, encasements, encashments, enchantress, eternalness, faintnesses, gauntnesses, inaptnesses, inessential, inexactness, inseminates, insensately, mangosteens, menservants, nastinesses, nattinesses, neutralness, notableness, scantnesses, strangeness, sustenances, tawninesses, tenableness, transiences, tunableness, unaptnesses, unessential. | |
+4 letters: antisciences, apparentness, consternates, contredanses, daintinesses, disentangles, enslavements, exactingness, inchoateness, inessentials, innatenesses, intactnesses, internalises, intimateness, jauntinesses, nativenesses, negativeness, nitrogenases, nonassertive, nonessential, ornatenesses, pleasantness, pliantnesses, quaintnesses, reassignment, scantinesses, strandedness, subtenancies, tangibleness, transiencies, unchasteness, unstableness, unsteadiness, vacantnesses, wantonnesses. | |
+5 letters: acceptingness, amniocenteses, amniocentesis, ancientnesses, androsterones, animatenesses, antiestrogens, antirecession, astringencies, attentiveness, conjugateness, consentaneous, containerises, containerless, convalescents, dauntlessness, decongestants, disenchanters, distantnesses, earnestnesses, enchantresses, encompassment, enterokinases, essentialness, estrangements, eternalnesses, exsanguinates, fenestrations, fortunateness, franticnesses, happenstances, identicalness, inanimateness, incandescents, inexactnesses, initialnesses, insatiateness, instantnesses, intravenouses, intricateness, inviolateness, lastingnesses, misdemeanants, momentariness, naturalnesses, naughtinesses, necessitarian, necessitating, necessitation, neurasthenias, neurasthenics, neutralnesses, nonessentials, nonresistance, normativeness, notablenesses, obstinateness, painterliness, permanentness, piquantnesses, plaintiveness, presentations, reassignments, remonstrances, saintlinesses, segmentations, spontaneities, staunchnesses, strangenesses, superannuates, tenablenesses, tenaciousness, tentativeness, thanklessness, thinkableness, transferences, translucences, transparences, tunablenesses, uncertainness, unearthliness, unhealthiness, valiantnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 61 74 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . .- - -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e a t n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0061 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4871678680718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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