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unneatness

unneatness noun: the quality of not being neat.

Noun

unneatness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of not being neat.
    • 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, […]1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret
    • Although his existential thoughts seem to have been tossed onto the page in helter-skelter fashion, what Gilboa does here is to open his mind and heart to the reader through verbal jaggedness and poetic unneatness.1994, Warren Bargad, "To Write the Lips of Sleepers": The Poetry of Amir Gilboa, page 232

Origin of unneatness

From unneat + -ness.

Questions about unneatness

What does unneatness mean?
Unneatness means the quality of not being neat.
What part of speech is unneatness?
Unneatness is a noun.

Words near unneatness in the dictionary

  1. unnearable
  2. unneared
  3. unneat
  4. unneatened
  5. unneatly
  6. unneatness
  7. unnebulous
  8. unneccessary
  9. unnecessaries
  10. unnecessarily
  11. unnecessariness

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