"neatness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-neatness.ogg [US] Forms: neatnesses [plural]
Etymology: From neat + -ness. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|neat|-ness}} neat + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} neatness (countable and uncountable, plural neatnesses)
  1. The state of being neat. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the state of being neat): тәртип (tərtip) (Bashkir), netteté [feminine] (French), აკურატულობა (aḳuraṭuloba) (Georgian), ápoltság (Hungarian), csín (Hungarian), ordúlacht [feminine] (Irish), slacht [masculine] (Irish), pulizia [feminine] (Italian), nitor [masculine] (Latin), munditia [feminine] (Latin), glītums [masculine] (Latvian), tvarkingùmas [masculine] (Lithuanian), lhomid [masculine] (Manx), գեղեցկութիւն (gełecʻkutʻiwn) (Old Armenian), asseio [masculine] (Portuguese), sgiobaltachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), pulcritud [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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