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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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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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