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SPRUCENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spruceness mean?
• SPRUCENESS (noun)
The noun SPRUCENESS has 1 sense:
1. the state of being neat and smart and trim
Familiarity information: SPRUCENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being neat and smart and trim
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
neatness; spruceness
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)
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