TRIMNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trimness mean? 

• TRIMNESS (noun)
  The noun TRIMNESS has 1 sense:

1. a state of arrangement or appearance

  Familiarity information: TRIMNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIMNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of arrangement or appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

trim; trimness

Context example:

in good trim

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

neatness; spruceness (the state of being neat and smart and trim)

Derivation:

trim (thin and fit)

trim (neat and smart in appearance)

trim (of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder)

 Context examples 

At the same instant Martin sprang for him, clutching him by the throat with one hand in such fashion that Mr. Ends' snow-white beard, still maintaining its immaculate trimness, pointed ceilingward at an angle of forty-five degrees.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)