[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being tidy (in various senses: see the adj.); † seasonableness; orderliness, neatness.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 9 b. For lacke of their naturall … growth and tidinesse in ripening.
1800. Amelia Opie, Lett., in Life, v. (1854), 74. He has gotten a fit of tidyness on him.
1860. Boyd, Recreat. Country Parson, vi. 200. Tidiness is a great source of cheerfulness.
1879. Sala, in Daily Tel., 9 June. One row of houses … admirable in their neatness, tidiness, cheerfulness, and commodiousness.
