PRUDISHNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessive or affected modesty

Synonyms:

Grundyism; primness; prudery; prudishness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("prudishness" is a kind of...):

modestness; modesty (freedom from vanity or conceit)

Derivation:

prudish (exaggeratedly proper)

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