Cleanness vs cleanliness

Personally, I am only familiar with "cleanliness" and would assume "cleanness" was a mistake.

Cleanliness is the practice of being clean or keeping things clean.

She was obsessed with cleanliness.

The hospital has a strict cleanliness policy.

The values of the people are: compassion/empathy, self-reliance, humility/modesty, respect, love, justice, freedom, courage, cleanliness of body and mind, honesty/integrity, diligence, co-operation, moderation

Thank you Grammar Geek.

I personally came across the word cleanness today for the first time. That was the spark which made me think how it can be different from cleanliness.

I think the right noun for clean is cleanness and cleanliness is the noun for cleanly not clean.

The meaning of cleanly as an adjective is also vague to me.

Here are longman's definitions:

Thanks A.Stars for your reply. That was helpful.

Do you personally use cleanly as an adjective?Have you hear it used by native speakers?

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hrsaneiThanks A.Stars for your reply. That was helpful.
Do you personally use cleanly as an adjective?Have you hear it used by native speakers?
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Yes, it is used. It's not an adjective. It is an adverb.

The batter hit the ball so cleanly that it sailed out of the ballpark.

The butcher is trained to cut meat cleanly and p

Thanks for your reply.

As I cited earlier, cleanly is an adjective too.That's what dictionaries say, not me. Its meaning as an adverb is quite clear, but using cleanly as an adjective is not common in everyday English which was the reason I asked for your help.

All the examples I gave you for cleanly were adverbs. It can be used as an adjective, and there is one example in the dictionary.

The cat is by nature a cleanly animal.

If you see cleanly in some text, probably >95% of the time it will be an adverb (modifying an adjective or verb).

Note: The pronunciation of the adjectival form is different than t