primness
1. excessive or affected modesty • Syn: prudishness, prudery, Grundyism • Derivationally related forms: prudish (for: prudishness), prim • Hypernyms: modesty, modestness 2. exaggerated and arrogant properness • Syn: priggishness • Derivationally related forms: prim, priggish (for: priggishness) • Hypernyms: propriety, properness, correctitude
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