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Noun: prudishness  proo-dish-nus
  1. Excessive or affected modesty
    "Her prudishness led her to object to even mildly suggestive jokes";
    - primness, prudery, Grundyism [archaic]

Type of: modestness, modesty

Encyclopedia: Prudishness