spruceness

noun

spruceness

noun

Etymology From spruce + -ness.

1

The property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant.

There was a slight air of untidiness—or rather, perhaps, an absence of spruceness in any detail—about his general appearance […]1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

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