tidiness
noun
tidiness is a noun meaning “The quality of being tidy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-I-D-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tidiness is tidinesses.
What does tidiness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being tidy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tidiness?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tidiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tidiness
- tidinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tidiness?
Tidiness appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Tidiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the quality of being tidy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Ordnung |
| Portuguese | asseio |
| Spanish | aseo, pulcritud, prolijidad |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tidiness come from?
From tidy + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).