DISORDERLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disorderliness mean? 

• DISORDERLINESS (noun)
  The noun DISORDERLINESS has 3 senses:

1. a condition in which things are not in their expected places

2. rowdy behavior

3. untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance)

  Familiarity information: DISORDERLINESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISORDERLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A condition in which things are not in their expected places

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disorder; disorderliness

Context example:

the files are in complete disorder

Hypernyms ("disorderliness" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disorderliness"):

shambles (a condition of great disorder)

untidiness (the condition of being untidy)

mess; messiness; muss; mussiness (a state of confusion and disorderliness)

disarrangement; disorganisation; disorganization (a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted)

clutter; fuddle; jumble; mare's nest; muddle; smother; welter (a confused multitude of things)

Antonym:

orderliness (a condition of regular or proper arrangement)

Derivation:

disorderly (completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rowdy behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disorderliness; roughness; rowdiness; rowdyism

Hypernyms ("disorderliness" is a kind of...):

disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)

Derivation:

disorderly (undisciplined and unruly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

disarray; disorderliness

Hypernyms ("disorderliness" is a kind of...):

messiness; untidiness (the trait of being untidy and messy)

Derivation:

disorderly (in utter disorder)