Usually means: Excessive propriety in manners, attitude.
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  1. prissiness: Merriam-Webster
  2. prissiness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prissiness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prissiness: Wordnik
  5. prissiness: Wiktionary
  6. prissiness: Dictionary.com
  7. prissiness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The state or quality of being excessively prim or proper.

Similar:
primness, prudeness, priggism, prighood, priggishness, prudishness, preppiness, pretensiveness, prudism, prudity, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiousness, casualness, laid-back

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Similar:
primness, prudeness, priggism, prighood, priggishness, prudishness, preppiness, pretensiveness, prudism, prudity, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiousness, casualness, laid-back



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