Dictionary Definition
messiness
Noun
1 a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the
house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn:
mess, muss, mussiness]
2 the trait of being untidy and messy [syn:
untidiness] [ant:
tidiness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The property of being messy.
- She was willing to forgive his messiness when they married, and pickup after him, but not that he forgot their anniversary.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, bad job, blowziness, blurriness, botch, bungling, carelessness, chaos, chintziness, confusion, dinginess, dirtiness, disorder, dowdiness, entropy, formlessness, frowziness, frumpishness, fuzziness, griminess, grubbiness, haphazardness, haziness, immundity, impurity, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness,
loose ends, looseness,
miriness, mistiness, muddiness, negligence, obscurity, orderlessness, sad work,
scruffiness,
seediness, shabbiness, shapelessness, shoddiness, slapdash, slatternliness, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly
performance, slovenry,
sluttishness,
sordidness, squalidness, squalor, tackiness, tawdriness, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unclearness, unneatness, unpureness, untidiness, vagueness