neat-freakery

English

Etymology

neat freak +‎ -ery

Noun

neat-freakery (uncountable)

1. (US, informal, rare) Obsessive tidiness or cleanliness; behavior characteristic of neat freaks.
   • 2012, Will Wiles, Care of Wooden Floors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 17:

     Oskar's neat-freakery only made minuscule 'lapses' like that more noticeable. He had the assistance of a cleaner, of course. But how thorough was the cleaner? London was full of Eastern European women working as domestic cleaners, but I  ...

   • 2014, Sarah Clark, Viva Voluptuous, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

     need him right now, and his neat-freakery. I definitely don't want to move in with him. The man keeps all his shoes in labelled boxes according to their Pantone shade!” Zoë and I laughed out loud; well aware that Lauren was exaggerating, but the ...

   • 2016, C.L. Taylor, The Lie, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:

     He got up and grabbed his T-shirt from the neat pile on the chair beside the bed. When we first started dating, he'd toss his clothes onto the floor with abandon, but my neat-freakery has changed all that. "No." He held up a hand, one pant leg.