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Noun: primness
  1. Excessive or affected modesty
    - prudishness, prudery, Grundyism
     
  2. Exaggerated and arrogant properness
    - priggishness

Derived forms: primnesses

See also: prim

Type of: correctitude, modestness, modesty, properness, propriety

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priming coat
primipara
primiparous
primitive
primitive art
primitive person
primitively
primitiveness
primitivism
primly
primness
primo
primogenitor
primogeniture
primordial
primordial dwarf
primordially
primordium
primp
primping
primrose