

The dirtiness of the house was unbearable. Or is it better to say I like to put things in order/ I like tidiness P.S. Levels of cleanliness in the city are very good. The reason I say "mess" is ambiguous is that it can be used to describe untidiness, but it can also describe something that has become dirty.Īs a general rule of thumb, use "cleanliness" and "dirtiness" when you are speaking about individuals, things, places or situations: You could have a room which is tidy, in that everything is in its place and orderly, yet it could be covered in dust and therefore "dirty". With the tractor and the mowing machine he continuously keeps the green around the hotel in perfect condition with infinite patience. Domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking.


I think what you are trying to do is to highlight the difference between cleanliness (which involves getting rid of dirt, germs etc) and tidiness (which is specifically about order, things being in the right place etc). Example sentences containing tidiness from English sources The protesters politeness, tidiness and 'staunch adherence to nonviolence' was widely commented on. She deliberately pokes fun at my tidiness and excessive organizational skills. He was going to like the clothes she bought for the trip. Synonyms for tidiness include arrangement, neatness, order, organisation, organization, regulation, trimness, well-orderedness, cleanliness and orderliness. Your use of "mess" is a little ambiguous though. Meanings Synonyms Sentences Ive waited at that station for five hours. I'm not sure why you want to reverse the statements? They aren't incorrect, just unfamiliar sounding. The sentences where you say " nobody dislikes." do seem a little odd though. The difference between "dirtiness" and " being dirty" is that the former can describe both the quality of being dirty and the state of being dirty either in oneself or in other people, whereas the latter is speaking exclusively about the state of oneself. It seems like a mistake that has crept into common use, some people may accept it but others will not so my advice is do not use it. We tend to use " cleanliness" more than "cleanness", which doesn't even appear in some dictionaries. From the Cambridge English Corpus The derivation process is a constructive proof that the tidiness criteria completely determine the drawing. All your examples seem correct grammatically. Our definition of tidiness consists of a collection of intuitively appealing criteria 'obviously' satisfied by tidy drawings.
