prudery

prudery

noun

Definition of PRUDERY

a tendency to care a great deal about seemly behavior and morals especially in sexual matters <such prudery regarding artistic depictions of the nude has no place on a college campus>

Synonyms moralism, nice-nellyism, prudishness, puritanism

Related Words Comstockery; old-maidishness, priggery, priggishness, primness; morality, virtue

Near Antonyms lechery, prurience, pruriency; libertinage, libertinism; libertarianism