tidiness

Neatness, tidiness, is easy: gaze upon a manicured lawn, a minimalist room, where there is nothing to disrupt or offend one’s line of sight, and there is nothing to think about, nothing to provoke the imagination.

Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009

He had a great many housewifely ways, and his tidiness was a satisfaction to Grandma

Old Caravan Days Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

Why would a kid want to clean up his toys in service of "tidiness" when they're so much easier to find on the floor?

Jonathan Kim: The Planeteers Want YOU! Captain Planet Turns 20 2010

When in the presence of Irish, blacks wallowed in filth and idleness but “where the blacks were found by themselves, we generally encountered tidiness, and some sincere attempt at industry and honest self-support.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

But scrupulous tidiness takes time and Gerald the perfectionist lost his chance to go elk hunting up north in Ten Sleep country.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

For example, we want to send them the messages of tidiness and responsibility for their belongings, so, every evening before they go to bed, our girls pile their books on the coffee table in our living room and put away their toys in their bedrooms.

Dr. Jim Taylor: Four Surefire Ways to Send Messages to Your Children Dr. Jim Taylor 2011

And there can be tidiness * and* clutter – real wunderkammers were, after all, well-organized.

Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009

It is the very lack of tidiness, the Starbucks spill, the torn corners that make it something than is much more than the sum of its parts.

Anya Hindmarch: Electronic or Paper? Anya Hindmarch 2011

Last year, she met with Yemeni-American community leaders to explain how to pack airplane luggage, after two Michigan men of Yemeni descent taped bottles of Pepto-Bismol to cellphones in their checked bags—apparently for tidiness—, inadvertently triggering fears of a bombing plot.

Long Arm of Law Reaches Out to Woo Muslims Evan Perez 2011

The bed rose up from this sea of refuse like a small island of tidiness.

Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011