well-kemptness en · NOUN
Etymology
From well-kempt + -ness.
Meanings
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(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: