Prissiness
Prudery and prissiness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prudery" instead a noun "Prissiness".
Prudery
Prudery noun - A tendency to care a great deal about seemly behavior and morals especially in sexual matters.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- formality and prissiness
- formality and prudery
- reserve and prissiness
- reserve and prudery
- affectation and prissiness
- affectation and prudery
- stiffness and prissiness
- stiffness and prudery
- snobbery and prissiness
- snobbery and prudery
- stuffiness and prissiness
- stuffiness and prudery
- modesty and prissiness
- modesty and prudery
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