primness

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun primness has 2 senses

primness(n = noun.attribute) grundyism, prudery, prudishness - excessive or affected modesty; Array

is a kind of modestness, modesty

Derived forms adjective prim₂, adjective prim₁

primness(n = noun.attribute) priggishness - exaggerated and arrogant properness; Array

is a kind of correctitude, properness, propriety

Derived form adjective prim₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

primness, n.

The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

primness

Quakerishness, buckram, censoriousness, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, demureness, demurity, dignity, extrinsicality, false modesty, form, formality, formalization, gravity, hideboundness, impersonality, mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty, pomp, pomposity, priggishness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, rigidness, ritual, rituality, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, smugness, solemnity, starchiness, stiff-neckedness, stiffness, stiltedness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, stylization, weight

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