Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Orderly state or condition; regularity; order.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being orderly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.
  • noun Orderly behaviour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a condition of regular or proper arrangement
  • noun the quality of appreciating method and system

Etymologies

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From orderly +‎ -ness.

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