ORDERLINESS Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

orderliness

noun

Definition of orderliness

as in uniformity

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Recent Examples of orderliness His apparent erratic behavior was exceptional in a context of bureaucratic orderliness. — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026 Besides safety, Japan's cultural norms of cleanliness and orderliness also play a major role. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 6 Jan. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for orderliness

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Noun

In her recent guest essay for the Sun Sentinel, Erika Donalds would have readers believe that David Jolly’s education plan threatens parental choice and seeks to impose uniformity on Florida’s schools.

— Crystal Etienne, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
The same phenomenon applies to minimalist interiors in independent coffee shops, all-neutral home decorating schemes and the uniformity of facial features and bodies on screen.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of uniformity

Noun

Before long, though, the family’s warm reception has turned as cold and rocky as the avalanches that occur with alarming regularity in the vicinity.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026
The failed effort to kill Christa Pike has placed a harsh spotlight on the practice of capital punishment in America, one of 17 countries to carry out an execution last year, as well as the regularity with which those executions go awry.

— New York Times, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of regularity

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Washington could also consider moving some command and coordination functions to the United States or to safer overseas locations, including in Europe and Diego Garcia, and develop its capacity for replenishing naval operations at sea.

— Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026
If the car or truck was rented in one state, set to return in another state and crossed into Mexico via a third, the coordination required between three state law enforcement agencies can make timely recovery of the vehicle even more complicated.

— Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of coordination

Noun

There was a certain equilibrium to the way our family ate, fueling ourselves for our respective days either sitting at a laptop or terrorizing the socket plugs, the crayons, the cat.

— Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
In the close quarters of the boat, the family’s fragile equilibrium, long organised around his volatility, begins to crack.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of equilibrium

Noun

Observational data can show correlation — that people taking GLP-1s were perhaps more likely to have this eye complication occur — but not causation.

— Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026
Although insider trading generally can have a correlation with future returns in the market broadly, Seyhun says banks are among the weakest areas for that kind of prediction.

— Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 8 Oct. 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

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