No Matter How You Say It: Orderliness

Orderliness
Written By Austin Florence

Word Origin

The Latin root is ordinem, “arrangement or row,” which originally meant “a row of threads in a loom.”

Word Origin from Vocabulary.com

Can you see how Orderliness is being neat and tidy?

Sign Language

Order

(scroll to the last definition) Can you see how the sign puts things in order?

Disorder

(the first definition) Can you see how everything is thrown together with no order?

Orderliness Idioms

  • A well-oiled machine

  • Apple-pie order (British)

  • Be detail-oriented

  • Be on top of things

  • Call a meeting to order

  • Clean as a whistle

  • Have a system for everything

  • Have everything in its place

  • In working order

  • Like clockwork

  • Made to order

  • Neat as a pin

  • Neat freak

  • Order in the court!

  • Plan ahead

  • Put own house in order

  • Run a tight ship

  • Ship Shape

  • Stickler for the rules

In Other Words

  • Tidiness

  • Organization

  • Neat

  • Systematic

  • Uncluttered

  • Shipshape

  • Structured

  • Methodical

  • Thorough

Orderliness Icons

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