SPRUCENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The state of being neat and smart and trim

Synonyms:

neatness; spruceness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

tidiness (the habit of being tidy)

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

trim; trimness (a state of arrangement or appearance)

Derivation:

spruce (marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners)