prudishness

Noun

Meaning

excessive or affected modesty

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

prudery primness Grundyism puritanism reserve discrimination delicacy formality strictness properness particularity priggishness stuffiness meticulousness squeamishness
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Antonyms

dirt impurity profanity indecency coarseness lechery
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Hypernyms

modesty modestness

Examples

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. Friedrich Schlegel

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Friedrich Schlegel

Too much prudishness makes the lover sick. Turkish Proverb

At the start, Howells conceived of realism as a truthful portrayal of ordinary facets of life—with some limitations; he preferred comedy to tragedy, and he tended to be to the point of prudishness. Source: Internet

This is more a function of my advanced age-- the quick-paced narrative makes it very clear that the author is 23-- and my prudishness when it comes to pointless vulgarisms. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

prudify prudish prudishly prudism prudist prudistic