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Seemliness vs Orderliness - What's the difference?

seemliness | orderliness |

As nouns the difference between seemliness and orderliness

is that seemliness is the property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior while orderliness is the fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.

seemliness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness .
  • (countable) The result or product of being seemly.

    • Antonyms

    * unseemliness

    orderliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 205:
  • *:Voltaire had drawn on Newton to demonstrate an allegedly divine orderliness in the natural world which left no space for God's intervention in human affairs [...].
  • Orderly behaviour.