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Meaning of "prudishness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRUDISHNESS

prudishness  [ˈpruːdɪʃnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRUDISHNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prudishness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRUDISHNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prude

A prude is a person who is described as being concerned with decorum or propriety, significantly in excess of normal prevailing standards. They may be perceived as being more uncomfortable than most with sexuality or nudity. The name is generally considered a pejorative term to suggest fear and contempt of human sexuality and excessive, unusual modesty stemming from such a negative view of sexuality. It is hence unflattering, often used as an insult. A person with such attitude to sexuality may have reservations about nudity, public display of sexual affection, discussion of sexual matters, participating in romantic or sexual activity—reservations that exceed normal prevailing community standards. Exhibiting fear and discomfort with sexuality may be associated with advocating censorship of sexuality or nudity in the media, avoiding or condemning any public display of affection, however, some of these positions can have a different and even totally opposite motivation.

Definition of prudishness in the English dictionary

The definition of prudishness in the dictionary is the quality of being prudish; prudish attitudes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRUDISHNESS


boorishness
ˈbʊərɪʃnɪs
Britishness
ˈbrɪtɪʃnɪs
childishness
ˈtʃaɪldɪʃnɪs
churlishness
ˈtʃɜːlɪʃnɪs
feverishness
ˈfiːvərɪʃnɪs
foolishness
ˈfuːlɪʃnɪs
foppishness
ˈfɒpɪʃnɪs
garishness
ˈɡɛərɪʃnɪs
lavishness
ˈlævɪʃnɪs
mawkishness
ˈmɔːkɪʃnɪs
offishness
ˈɒfɪʃnɪs
peevishness
ˈpiːvɪʃnɪs
selfishness
ˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs
skittishness
ˈskɪtɪʃnɪs
sluggishness
ˈslʌɡɪʃnɪs
snappishness
ˈsnæpɪʃnɪs
snobbishness
ˈsnɒbɪʃnɪs
squeamishness
ˈskwiːmɪʃnɪs
stylishness
ˈstaɪlɪʃnɪs
unselfishness
ʌnˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRUDISHNESS

prude
prudence
prudent
prudential
prudentialism
prudentialist
prudentiality
prudentially
Prudentius
prudently
prudery
prudish
prudishly
pruina
pruinose
prunable
prune
prunella
prunelle
prunello

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRUDISHNESS

brashness
bullishness
business
Caithness
Englishness
freshness
greenishness
harshness
highness
Jewishness
lushness
much of a muchness
muchness
rashness
richness
roughness
Royal Highness
smoothness
suchness
thoroughness
toughness

Synonyms and antonyms of prudishness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prudishness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRUDISHNESS

Find out the translation of prudishness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prudishness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prudishness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

prudishness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mojigatería
570 millions of speakers

English

prudishness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prudishness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prudishness في
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ханжество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prudishness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prudishness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pudibonderie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keberanian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Prüderie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ガードの堅いこと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prudishness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prudishness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prudishness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prudishness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लाजाळूपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prudishness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pruderie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pruderia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

святенництво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pudicitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σεμνοτυφία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

preutsheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pryderi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prudishness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prudishness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRUDISHNESS»

The term «prudishness» is normally little used and occupies the 130.709 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRUDISHNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prudishness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prudishness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prudishness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRUDISHNESS»

Discover the use of prudishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prudishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Doxology
opportunity to take a stand against wrongful prudishness: a friend, in class, had heard a professor lecture against alleged ludicrous Victorian prudish advice to brides, advising brides-to-be to "GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL,  ...
C. J. S. Hayward, 2010
2
Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North ...
A. Thought. on. Marianne. Moore's. Prudishness. Brian Brodhead Glaser Richard Howard said in an essay on Marianne Moore that “we have not devised or developed a vocabulary in which we can readily express or understand the erotics of ...
Kornelia Freitag, Katharina Vester, 2008
3
Brahms Studies
Brahms's prudishness was, more broadly, a musical prudishness; if he was, like many prudes, fatally attracted to. 2 2 . For prudishness here we may well substitute sexual repression, following Robert Fink's line of argument in "Desire, ...
Brahms Studies, David Lee Brodbeck, 2001
4
Ford Madox Ford and America
PRUDISHNESS. AND. INDECENCY. Ford. Madox. Ford. Edited. by. Max. Saunders. Editorial. Note. The following piece was possibly written as a lecture to an audience in New York. The opening appears to play on the disparity between the ...
Sara Haslam, Seamus O'Malley, 2012
5
Jane Austen For Dummies
Preferring. candor. over. prudishness. In her personal life, Jane Austen was no prude. But neither was she indecent in speech — which, let's face it, is all too common today — nor in behavior. She was simply a realist, and with her Georgian ...
Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, PhD, 2011
6
Gorillas in the Mist
prudishness. and. cruelty. This. Dian. Fossey. is. a. tragic. figure,. to. be. feared. and. pitied. . ." Howdy. Hear you're from Italy Where 'bouts? Rome? Milan? Dontcha. BY LOVE POSSESSED: Sigourney Weaver's performance dominates Gorillas ...
7
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates ...
Problems of Moral Prudishness in the United States: The Extreme Case of Carl Ludwig Siegel For Siegel, a bachelor sharing accommodation with female friends74 in Princeton, one of several reasons for his short-term return to Germany in the ...
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, 2009
8
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the ...
I am also satisfied that influx of women into universities, etc., is often due to the sexual impulse causing restlessness, and that this factor finds expression in the prurient prudishness so often presenting itself in such women, which interferes with ...
Havelock Ellis, 2012
9
Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sex in Relation to Society
The ancient Hebrews werenotentirely free from prudishness, and we find in theOld Testament that by a curious euphemism the sexual organs are sometimes referred to as "the feet." The Turks are capableof prudishness. So,indeed, were even ...
Havelock Ellis
10
Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the ...
As for the journalists hand-wringing over Ongania's prudishness, U.S. relations with Franco's Spain tell another story. When staunchly anticommunist Spain became attractive to US. cold war strategists as a site for military bases, the United ...
Carol A. Hess, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRUDISHNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prudishness is used in the context of the following news items.
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What A Cheek: The Left In A Lather Over Not-So-Racy Jilly Cooper …
The poor, dear luvvies of the chin-stroking left have got themselves in a terrible lather on the matter of prudishness. No, we're not talking about the issue of ... «Breitbart News, Jun 15»
2
Canadian nude art exhibit challenges national prudishness
If you're considering renting works of art for a corporate or a clinic waiting room, which piece would you pick: a still-life painting of fruit on a table or a photograph ... «CBC.ca, Mar 15»
3
Blogger porn ban – Google's arbitrary prudishness is attacking the …
Blogger porn ban – Google's arbitrary prudishness is attacking the integrity of the web. Zoe Margolis. Google's decision to force blogs hosting adult content into ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
4
How Bayonetta's Gender is Relevant to the Game
Bayonetta could be considered more of a satire of sexualization, and once I realized that, it occurred to me that it is, at heart, a game about prudishness. «The Escapist, Nov 14»
5
Economic dependence promotes prudishness
We believe in the free flow of information. We use a Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives license, so you can republish our articles for free, online or in ... «The Conversation, Jul 14»
6
Nigel Hastilow: Porn, prostitution and prudishness
In the Victorian era, they used to cover up piano legs and yet, in London, one house in 60 was a brothel. That's a lot of prudishness and extra-marital ... «expressandstar.com, Apr 14»
7
Music historian to give public lecture on Jelly Roll Morton at Tulane
... and musicians suggest aspects of blues and racial interchange in popular culture that remain largely unexplored due to censorship, romanticism, prudishness, ... «UptownMessenger.com, Mar 14»
8
Ridley Scott Says He Prefers Director's Cut Of 'The Counselor …
But while he claims that "good taste" made him temper that moment, there was something guiding the pruning of another sequence: Fox executive's prudishness ... «Indie Wire, Feb 14»
9
This is a new lingerie line, based upon the 50 Shades trilogy.
50 Shades Of Grey Lingerie Is Surprisingly Prudish. The lurid ... The 50 Shades trilogy challenged a deep-seated cultural prudishness with measurable success. «Co.Design, Dec 13»
10
The strange prudishness of Channel 4's Sex Box
“Couples speak openly and honestly about sex within a loving relationship,” Mariella Frostrup tells us as she opens the show, and suddenly we're stuck in a ... «New Statesman, Oct 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Prudishness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prudishness>. Apr 2024 ».
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