Orderliness

Orderliness

Orderliness is associated with other qualities such as cleanliness and diligence—and the desire for order and symmetry, and is generally considered to be a desirable quality.

In psychology, an excessive desire for orderliness can be associated with obsessive–compulsive disorder and the term anal retentive, (or simply anal)—from Freudian psychoanalysis—is used conversationally to describe a person with such attention to orderliness and detail that it becomes close to a mental disorder.


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  • orderliness — noun Date: 1571 the quality or state of being orderly …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • orderliness — or·der·li·ness || É”rdÉ™rlɪnɪs n. quality of being in order; neatness, tidiness; good behavior …   English contemporary dictionary

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