orderliness

noun

Definition of orderlinessnext
as in uniformity

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Recent Examples of orderliness Compared with the turbines and steam towers and the idyllic orderliness of the canteen, the site was underwhelming. — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2025 Spencer Fomby, a former police lieutenant with crowd safety expertise, emphasized the danger in transitioning from a seated event to a standing room on an open field, especially without a system, infrastructure or staff in place to ensure safety and orderliness. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025 Compassion for the homeless has to be balanced with the safety and orderliness the rest of us deserve. — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2025 So, as the masses realign the qubits and the qubits in turn buffet the masses, the net effect will be to squash the masses closer together to contain the orderliness to a smaller region. — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for orderliness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orderliness
  1. uniformity
  2. regularity
  3. coordination
  4. equilibrium
  5. correlation
  6. evenness
Noun
  • Early on, Daunt flagged that Barnes & Noble—like Waterstones before it—suffered from uniformity that bored customers.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Their rules tend to reflect strong preferences for aesthetic uniformity, believed by some to be associated with higher home values.
    — Daniel Kramer, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of uniformity
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  • Eating watermelon may promote bowel regularity because of its water and fiber content.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 30 July 2026
  • At this stage of pre-season, when substitutions are a regularity and international players are still away, there is a risk of reading too much into matches.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Definition of regularity
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  • The org chart flattens because the coordination overhead that justified middle layers, translating between product, builders, and reviewers, is increasingly absorbed by AI tools.
    — Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • And now, as Ebola ravages the Congo, advocates say that this is exactly the sort of outbreak that money and coordination was intended to contain.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of coordination
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  • At that tipping point, the only solution is for oil prices to surge, destroying enough demand for oil that the market can return to equilibrium.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The great decoupling is not a crisis to be managed back to the old equilibrium.
    — Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of equilibrium
Noun
  • But even though the study found a significant link between artificial sweeteners and memory issues, experts say this is still only a correlation, not causation.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Cloud intelligence relies on data with context, correlation and operational meaning across the full environment.
    — Kannan Kothandaraman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of correlation
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  • But Kostyuk, who has done tremendous work of her own this season to add solidity and evenness to a tennis arsenal with impossible peaks, but also deep troughs, had reasons to do much more than feel the agony of missing out.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 9 July 2026
  • Cooking performance comparison Both Lodge and Amazon Basics Dutch ovens scored a perfect 10 out of 10 for cooking performance, including heat retention and evenness of cooking.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
Definition of evenness

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