No Matter How You Say It: Orderliness
Word Origin
The Latin root is ordinem, “arrangement or row,” which originally meant “a row of threads in a loom.”
Word Origin from Vocabulary.com
Can you see how Orderliness is being neat and tidy?
Sign Language
Check out the following links from Handspeak for the American Sign Language interpretation of the words:
Order – (scroll to the last definition) Can you see how the sign puts things in order?
Disorder – (the first definition) Can you see how everything is thrown together with no order?
Icons and Graphics for Orderliness
Orderliness Idioms and Phrases
- A well-oiled machine
- Apple-pie order (British)
- Be detail-oriented
- Be on top of things
- Call a meeting to order
- Clean as a whistle
- Have a system for everything
- Have everything in its place
- In working order
- Like clockwork
- Made to order
- Neat as a pin
- Neat freak
- Order in the court!
- Plan ahead
- Put own house in order
- Run a tight ship
- Ship Shape
- Stickler for the rules
In Other Languages
Spanish – ordenada
French – ordonnée
German – ordentlich
Italian – ordinata
Latin – ornatum
Bosnian – uredno
Icelandic – skipulega