Unneatness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of not being neat. uncountable

    "Every possible care was taken of him, and in a day or two he was able to walk into the study again, where he sat gazing at the sordidness and unneatness of the apartment, the strange festoons and drapery of spiders' webs, […]"

Example

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"Every possible care was taken of him, and in a day or two he was able to walk into the study again, where he sat gazing at the sordidness and unneatness of the apartment, the strange festoons and drapery of spiders' webs, […]"

Etymology

From unneat + -ness.

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