Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

well-kemptness en · NOUN

Etymology

From well-kempt + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The state or quality of being well-kempt.
    • There was an air of well-kemptness. Nothing grand, nothing flashy, just a sense that all was well and that upkeep on the houses was no problem. 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, page 51:
    • Achieve a standard of well-kemptness in a street - and this applies equally to a nineteenth century part of Bolton and to rich suburban Altrincham - and people will keep their paint-work spick and span. 1969, Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund, Socialist vanguard group (contributors), Socialist Commentary, page IV:
    • I suspect that the heart of the power of the visit lay in the weird bipolar nature of the site — its general well-kemptness (at the lower levels anyhow) yet its utter abandonment and emptiness. 1998, Reynolds Price, Learning a Trade, A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997, page 437: