primness
41starch — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A laundering agent] Syn. stiffening, sizing, laundry starch, cornstarch, arrowroot starch, spray starch. 2. [A complex carbohydrate] Syn. glycogen, polysaccharide, carbohydrate; see carbohydrate , sugar . 3. [A stiff… …
42priggishness — prɪgɪʃnɪs n. meticulousness. strictness; pedanticalness, pettiness; conceit, arrogance; primness, state of being overly concerned with one s appearance …
43prissiness — prɪsɪnɪs n. meticulousness, fussiness; strictness, formality; primness, affected neatness …
44squeamishness — squeam·ish·ness || skwɪËmɪʃnɪs n. prudishness, primness; fastidiousness; quality of being easily disgusted or nauseated …
45prim — adjective (primmer, primmest) feeling or showing disapproval of anything improper; stiffly correct. verb (prims, primming, primmed) purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression. Derivatives primly adverb primness noun Origin …
46frigidity — n. 1. Coldness, coolness, chilliness, frigidness, gelidity, gelidness, low temperature. 2. Dulness, frigidness, lifelessness, want of animation. 3. Frigidness, formality, primness, stiffness, rigidity, repelling manner, forbidding manner,… …
47stiffness — n. 1. Rigidity, inflexibility, rigidness, rigor, hardness, starkness. 2. Thickness, spissitude, density, compactness, denseness, consistence. 3. Stubbornness, obstinacy, pertinacity, contumaciousness, inflexibility. 4. Severity, rigor, strictness …
48prim — adjective 1 very formal and careful in the way you behave, and easily shocked by anything rude: a prim and studious manner | prim and proper: Andy s much too prim and proper to enjoy your jokes. 2 small and neat: a prim apron primly adverb… …
49formality — noun 1) the formality of the occasion Syn: ceremony, ceremoniousness, ritual, conventionality, red tape, protocol, decorum; stateliness, courtliness, solemnity Ant: informality 2) his formality was off putting …
50frigidity — n 1. chill, coldness, cold, gelidity, al gidity, iciness, frozenness; bitterness, rawness, sharpness. 2. indifference, apathy, inertia, lifelessness, tameness, dullness; imperturbability, imperturbation, stoniness, callousness, obdurateness,… …
