alphabeticalness

alphabetical +‎ -ness

alphabeticalness (uncountable)

1. The state of being alphabetical.

   Synonym: alphabeticality

   • 1868, Chaucer Society (London, England), Publications, page 95:

     The ABC's alphabeticalness doubtless had some attraction for Chaucer, independent of its subject.

   • 1976, Open Letter:

     The alphabeticalness is important because it's simple and because the words a poet writes are things made of alphabet elements where vowels are the sounding spaces.

   • 2017 December 4, Arne Zettersten, Viggo Hjornager Pedersen, Symposium on Lexicography VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Lexicography May 5–6, 1994 at the University of Copenhagen, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 192:

     There seems to be even a fourth reason for not adhering to strict alphabeticalness: 9.4. Keep combinations that are closely related in meaning together by entering them in the entry for the first element Thus, e.g. the OALD says in […]