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PRUDISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prudishness mean?
• PRUDISHNESS (noun)
The noun PRUDISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. excessive or affected modesty
Familiarity information: PRUDISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessive or affected modesty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
Grundyism; primness; prudery; prudishness
Hypernyms ("prudishness" is a kind of...):
modestness; modesty (freedom from vanity or conceit)
Derivation:
prudish (exaggeratedly proper)
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