Similar words: childishness, prudish, lavishness, foolishness, hawkishness, selfishness, sluggishness, skittishness. Meaning: ['pruːdɪʃnɪs] 
n. excessive or affected modesty.
n. excessive or affected modesty. 
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1. Two decades after government-imposed prudishness ended with the Soviet collapse, Russians still shy away from embracing European-style sexual mores.
2. Older people will have grown up in a time of greater sexual prudishness.
3. A stripper who danced on the poles of Santiago subway trains to challenge the prudishness of Chilean society was arrested Thursday during her lightning performances.
4. This persecution heralds the rise of the hate-mongering wolf dressed up in the sheep's skin of sexual prudishness.
5. This cannot be explained away as a coarse Western deficiency; though his taste swung from joyous profanity to extremes of prudishness .
6. Why are we so ashamed of being seen naked? Is there something deep in human nature that finds naked skin abhorrent? Some prudishness inherited from our Victorian ancestors?
7. I think the English suffer from this more than other peoples – a remnant of Victorian prudishness .
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